Heather Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. House.

Heather Hill

WRENN ID
sombre-kitchen-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Heather Hill, South Street, Leominster
OS grid reference
SO 495 583
Coordinates
52.22114, -2.7401
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Heather Hill is a house built around 1830, featuring a 17th-century rear wing that remains from an earlier structure. The main block is constructed of red brick set on a shallow stone plinth, with stone and artificial stone details, while the rear wing is timber-framed on brick. The building has hipped slate roofs with boxed eaves and two brick chimney stacks. There is a brick vaulted cellar beneath the main block.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a two-window range with 6/6 sash windows beneath moulded stone hoods supported by enriched consoles. A central early 20th-century porch features a margin-glazed door and lights, housing the original margin-glazed door in a reeded case with corner stop paterae, flanked by 6/6 sash windows under similar hoods.

On the left side, there are French windows to the right and two 6/6 sashes under similar hoods on the first floor. A later 19th-century two-tier canted bay window with plain sashes and French windows is located to the left. The left return side is roughcast, featuring a 6/6 sash and a narrow 10/8 sash for the stairwell.

A projecting gable wing includes a part-glazed 6-panel door in an early 19th-century doorcase with a hood supported by colonnettes, and two tiers of 6/6 sashes with segmental arches. The upper level of the side wall of the rear wing exposes timber-framing above the brick projection that houses the kitchen range. The rear wall is rendered over timber-frame with brick infill, displaying scattered fenestration including an 8/8 sash.

Inside the rear wing, exposed posts and ceiling beams are noted. The main house features a staircase from around 1830 with stick balusters and turned newels, square shutters, and panelled doors on both floors. The main bedroom includes a chimney piece with fluted architraves and corner stops with paterae.

Local climate

Heather Hill receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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