Hunger Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1988. A C17 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Hunger Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
idle-lintel-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lichfield
Constituency
Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 January 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Hunger Hill Farmhouse, Hunger Hill Lane, Hamstall Ridware, WS15 3RY
OS grid reference
SK 099 186
Coordinates
52.76557, -1.85362
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hunger Hill Farmhouse is a 17th-century cottage located on Hunger Hill Lane in Hamstall Ridware. It features a timber frame with plastered infill panels and a plain tile roof, along with a plastered ridge stack and a corner stack. The building has a two-cell baffle entry plan, oriented east-west and facing south, with a lean-to extension on the north side. It stands two storeys tall and has three square panels at the eaves supported by straight braces. There are three 20th-century casement windows and a central glazed door. The right-hand gable reveals an exposed roof truss with V-struts above the collar. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Hunger Hill Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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