Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1987. House.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-shingle-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Abbots Ripton
- OS grid reference
- TL 236 793
- Coordinates
- 52.39847, -0.18339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with minor alterations from the late 18th or early 19th century. It is timber framed and roughcast rendered on a plinth, topped with plain tiled roofs. The main range consists of six bays, with a two-bay kitchen wing at the rear of the southwest end. The principal range is two storeys high and features four first-floor flush frame hung sashes with margin lights, which have stucco surrounds with raised keyblocks from the early 19th century. There are three similar ground floor flush frame hung sashes with margin lights. The doorway is located in the centre bay. The kitchen wing, dating from the 18th century, is also timber framed, rendered, and has a plain tiled roof. It is one storey and has an attic.
Inside the main range, there are six bays, including intermediate bays without tie beams. The principal posts have jowled heads, while the tie beams are unbraced. The roof is constructed with clasped side purlins. The ground floor features a ceiling frame with broad stop chamfers and ogee stops with nicks. The northeast end room contains an 18th-century corner cupboard with raised and fielded panels and shaped shelves. There are back-to-back hearths, which now have modern fireplaces and an inglenook. The rear range has ceiling joists set on edge.
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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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