Hill House is a Wealden Hall dating from the 14th Century.

    The front of the house, abutting Market Hill, was built around 1380 and reflects the typical domestic layout of the middle ages.

    To the right of the present front door which still occupies it’s original position, lay the medieval hall, which would have been open to it’s roof in the manner of a barn and heated by a an open hearth b-urning on the floor.

    A ceiling was inserted into this space during the mid-16th Century, and a brick chimney was built against it’s back wall. A rare example of a Tudor merchant’s mark is carved into the centre of the fireplace lintel, which also retains traces of 16th or early 17th century floral painting.

    In addition the house contains a second hall in the rear wing which is linked to the main house by a cloister like passage that probably functioned as a Brewhouse or Bakehouse. It now very appropriately contains the current kitchen.

    Both Bakehouses and Wealden’s of this early period are rare survivals, and their combination here, together with fragments of  early 17th Century wall paintings, makes Hill House something of a historical gem. (Leigh Alston M.A. (Oxon) Arichitectural Historian 2001)