The Hill and Garden Walls Attached to East and West is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. Farmhouse.
The Hill and Garden Walls Attached to East and West
- WRENN ID
- veiled-chapel-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- SO 437 512
- Coordinates
- 52.15671, -2.82307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, dating back to the 16th century, with later additions and alterations from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed primarily of sandstone rubble with brick and timber-frame sections, plaster infill, sandstone dressings, and Welsh slate roofs. There are four large sandstone side stacks with brick shafts, and one brick end stack. The plan is roughly rectangular, with a cross-wing at each end. It incorporates a cellar, two storeys, and an attic.
The north elevation has an irregular arrangement of windows, with timber-framed gable fronts at each end. The left gable features a deep sandstone rubble plinth with a central entrance to the cellar. Above is square framing, five panels high, to a cambered tie-beam, topped with a small square window. The right-hand gable, likely of 16th-century origin, has a projecting first storey supported on brackets. Narrowly spaced studs surround the central first-floor window, which has glazing bars. Angle struts extend from the corner posts to the tie, above which are herringbone struts. A ledged door is located to the left of the centre. A catslide projection extends from either side of a large external stack that bears a tablet with an escutcheon.
The west elevation displays narrow studding with two blind first-floor zones, possibly indicating the former positions of windows. The south elevation is largely brick, with four large external stacks and two first-floor windows to the right, each with cambered brick heads and glazing bar sashes. A panelled door and fanlight are situated beneath the right-hand window, sheltered by a lean-to canopy supported by two slender columns, likely dating back to the early 19th century. The east elevation has three windows with glazing bar sashes, also with gauged brick heads and projecting stone keystones. The central ground floor sash is deeper, creating access via stone steps. A dentilled brick eaves cornice runs along the roofline.
Attached to the north-west and north-east corners are brick walls constructed in Flemish bond, standing approximately 10 feet high, with flat sandstone capping. These walls extend east and west for around 30 yards, each with a round-headed doorway, before turning southwards. The eastern wall is swept down to the south.
The interior includes a moulded sandstone fireplace, probably dating from the 17th century, flagged stone floors, and deeply chamfered ceiling beams which divide the ceiling into panels. The trusses feature a variety of features, including plain collars, three posts to collars with V-struts, and pegged king-posts carrying twin raking struts, along with run-out stops on stop-chamfered spine beams.
Local climate
The Hill and Garden Walls Attached to East and West receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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