The Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. House.
The Hill House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-zinc-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Hill House, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 168 444
- Coordinates
- 52.08648, -0.29557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hill House is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century, which was reworked in the 18th and 19th centuries. The ground floor and the north gable end were rebuilt in 18th-century brick, while the rest of the building features colourwashed roughcast over a timber frame. The roof is made of clay tiles and is hipped to the northwest and southwest. The house is designed in a U-plan and consists of two storeys and attics.
The eastern elevation has a central block with the main entrance, which features a round-arched doorway beneath a round-arched hood that projects beyond brick supports on decorated brackets. This entrance replaces an earlier, larger gabled porch. The house has a variety of windows, including a hipped dormer, with most being 19th and 20th-century casements. The western elevation, which was refenestrated in the 19th century, includes two canted bays on the right side of the ground floor, casement windows elsewhere, and three hipped dormers. A red brick multiple ridge stack is located between the two right-hand bays, serving a substantial back-to-back hearth.
Local climate
The Hill House 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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