Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Farmhouse.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-niche-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill House, Victoria Street, Wheelton
- OS grid reference
- SD 602 211
- Coordinates
- 53.68544, -2.60351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a farmhouse and house that has been combined into a single dwelling. It dates from the 17th century and 19th century, with alterations and recent renovations. A 19th-century house was added to the front of the first two bays of the three-bay 17th-century house. The building is constructed entirely of sandstone; the older section features coursed thin sandstone rubble with large quoins, while the addition has watershot coursed stone with raised quoins. Both sections have slate roofs, with a steep pitch over the older part, and ridge chimneys.
The 17th-century house has two low storeys and includes remains of recessed mullioned windows, some of which have hoodmoulds but are missing their mullions. One of these windows is located at the ground floor of the exposed front of the third bay, another is at the first floor of the gable, and there are three at the ground floor of the rear. The 19th-century addition has two higher storeys and features two windows on each floor, which were originally sashed with plain surrounds but have been altered to casements with glazing bars. The left ground floor window has been further modified. There are also two similarly altered windows on each floor of the right gable and a plain doorway near the junction of the two sections. The interior has not been inspected, but it is believed to contain some interesting features. The absence of any original window openings at the first floor of the rear wall suggests a possible cruck-framed origin.
Local climate
Hill House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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