Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-mullion-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Chapel End Road, Houghton Conquest, MK45 3LW
- OS grid reference
- TL 054 418
- Coordinates
- 52.06542, -0.46373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, which was refronted around 1800. It has a timber framed structure that is partly recased and partly rebuilt in mottled red brick, topped with a hipped clay tile roof. The building is two storeys high and has a two-room plan, featuring a first-floor jetty at the rear.
The northern elevation, which is the front, has been completely refronted. It includes sash windows with glazing bars set under cambered heads, with two on the ground floor and three on the first floor. The off-centre doorway features a six-panel door beneath a flat hood supported by timber.
On the southern elevation, the ground floor has been rebuilt in brick, while the jettied first floor is finished with pebbledash render. The ground floor has two three-light casements with glazing bars under cambered heads, and the first floor has two two-light casements with glazing bars. There is an off-centre doorway in a slightly projecting bay that has a four-panel door under a cambered head.
At the eastern end of the house is a substantial external stack made of ironstone at the base and brick above, featuring a pair of tall diagonal shafts. The western end has a 19th-century rebuilt chimney in a similar style. Additionally, there is a 20th-century two-storeyed addition at the western end.
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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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