Paxton Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1983. Country house.
Paxton Hill House
- WRENN ID
- plain-chalk-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1983
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Paxton Hill House, Great Paxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 204 623
- Coordinates
- 52.24618, -0.23756
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paxton Hill House is an early 19th-century country house located in Great Paxton, with service wings to the north. The house was enlarged in the late 19th century and is constructed from gault brick. It features hipped slate roofs with paired brackets supporting deep, boarded eaves. The layout consists of four linked ranges surrounding a top-lit stairwell, and the building has two storeys.
On the north elevation, there is a range of three recessed hung sashes with glazing bars set in cambered arches. A later central brick porch with stone details has been added. The south front showcases two later 19th-century half-round bays, each two storeys high with parapets, and hung sashes with glazing bars.
Inside, the house retains original panelled doors, marble fireplaces, and cornice mouldings.
Local climate
Paxton 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 98% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 0.4°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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