Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. House.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- rooted-baluster-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill House, Castle Lane, Todmorden, OL14 8AS
- OS grid reference
- SD 953 249
- Coordinates
- 53.72061, -2.07145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a 16th-century cruck-framed house that has been encased in stone in the mid-17th century and features an added cross-wing from the early 19th century. The exterior is made of hammer-dressed stone, with watershot stone on the cross-wing and a stone slate roof. The central hall is single-storey and has an altered window with a hollow chamfered lintel and sill, featuring 19th-century jambs and mullions that now create three large lights. To the right, there is a large stone outshut from the 19th century, while to the left is a gabled two-storey wing with three-light flat-faced mullioned windows on each floor. The main entrance is located between the hall window and the cross-wing. The house has two stacks on the ridge of the main range and a lateral stack on the cross-wing.
Inside, at the first floor level, there is a complete cruck truss with a collar at the apex and a diagonally set ridge. The east end features a wooden mullioned window with five lights, which was originally unglazed but is now covered by a modern extension. The cruck frame is a rare survival, and the house may have originally consisted of three bays. Some of the purlins are re-used timbers with half lap joints.
Local climate
Hill House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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