Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. House.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-screen-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill House, Blackmore End Road, Wethersfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 738 308
- Coordinates
- 51.94883, 0.52882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a 17th-century house that features a timber frame and a thatched roof. It has four bays facing northeast and an axial stack positioned to the left of center. There are single-storey lean-to extensions with corrugated iron roofs at the left end and at the rear of the right end. The house is one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there is one 19th-century casement window and two 20th-century casement windows. The first floor has two 19th-century casement windows located in swept dormers, along with two plain boarded doors.
Local climate
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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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