Hill Top House is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1989. House.
Hill Top House
- WRENN ID
- over-chapel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth MP: Dr Luke Evans (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Top House, 7, High Street, Earl Shilton
- OS grid reference
- SP 468 981
- Coordinates
- 52.57903, -1.30986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Top House is a late 18th-century red brick house located on the east side of High Street in Hinckley. It features a slate roof and brick end stacks, standing two storeys tall. The building has a moulded eaves cornice and a full-height central arched recess, similar to No. 71 High Street. It is composed of three bays, with 12-pane glazing bar sash windows that have gauged brick heads. The central entrance consists of a two-leaf door with raised and fielded panels, topped by a fanlight with patterned glazing bars. To the left, there is a two-storey extension that also includes glazing bar sashes with gauged heads and a semi-circular arched six-panel door.
Local climate
Hill Top House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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