Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- tired-clay-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill House, 11, Brinkley Road, Carlton, CB8 9JY
- OS grid reference
- TL 642 534
- Coordinates
- 52.15475, 0.39907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House, formerly known as the Old Post Office, is a house located on Brinkley Road in Carlton cum Willingham. It was built in the early 19th century and features a brick exterior with a rendered finish and a hipped slate roof supported by two internal stacks. The house has a double pile plan and is double fronted, with a slightly projecting central bay that has a pediment. On either side of the central bay are two recessed twelve-pane hung sash windows, alongside a nine-pane window. The doorway is rounded headed and features an arch with a doorcase that includes pilasters and a Doric frieze with a cornice. The entrance has a panelled door topped by a fanlight with swagged and radial glazing bars.
Local climate
Hill House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
- 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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