Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Farmhouse.

Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
twelfth-entrance-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hill Farmhouse, Wood Lane, Willington
OS grid reference
TL 124 487
Coordinates
52.12539, -0.35911
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Farmhouse is a house built in the early 19th century for the Duke of Bedford. It resembles a design from around 1800 by R Salmon for Francis, the 5th Duke of Bedford, for a house in a different parish. The exterior is finished in pebbledash over brick, and it features hipped slate roofs. The main block has an octagonal plan and stands two storeys high, with a two-storey wing projecting to the northwest. The main block has primarily sash windows with glazing bars beneath cambered heads, with one window on each floor of each side. The northeast and southeast elevations include a dummy window on the first floor. The east elevation features a wooden porch accessed by three steps, with a semi-circular archway adorned with wooden mouldings. The door consists of two flush panels and two glazed panels, topped by a rectangular fanlight. At the apex of the roof, there are a pair of red brick chimney stacks flanking a roof light. The northwest wing has casement windows with glazing bars under cambered heads, and there is a single-storey outhouse addition to the northwest.

Local climate

Hill Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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