Hill Top Farm & Cottage
Hill Top Farm & Hill Top Cottage
Hill Top Farm and Cottage were originally one house, which is Grade II listed. The older part has a datestone over the entrance reading William Thomas Preston 1617. It has a two bay 18th century extension to the original 17th century house. It is of stone rubble fill construction with stone slate roof, the extension being of dressed stone. It has mullioned windows and a two storey porch with a dovecote. The date of division is unknown. According to Arthur Raistrick the house was already divided in 1947 with the east end being a separate cottage. The separate cottage was for many years the home of the artist William Shackleton. It is now a holiday cottage. Hill Top Farm was occupied by the Hudson family from 1897 until 1951 when the Heseltine family came from Wensleydale. Then in 1957 Annie Hudson and John Heseltine married, thus joining the two families, and they took over the running of the farm together in 1960.
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