Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. House.

Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
secret-railing-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1986
Type
House
Address
Hill Farmhouse, Faulkbourne
OS grid reference
TL 796 170
Coordinates
51.82343, 0.60558
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late 16th century and was altered in the 19th century. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The late 16th-century section includes a two-bay crosswing that juts out to the northeast, while to the southeast, there is an early 19th-century parallel range with a central stack and a staircase hall between the two sections. There is also a single-storey lean-to extension to the southeast, which has a slate roof.

To the northwest of the crosswing, there is a service wing of uncertain date, with a catslide roof at the front and an internal stack at the junction. The building has two storeys. On the ground floor, there is one early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights and three 19th-century sashes with four lights each. The first floor has two similar sash windows. There is a door located at the rear. The late 19th-century brackets are found below the jetty, and both front gables and the right gable feature cusped bargeboards.

Inside, the structure is mainly plastered, hiding much of the framework. The late 16th-century crosswing has exposed moulded beams above the first floor. The service wing to the right has a softwood roof, but the lower parts of this section may date back earlier. The early 19th-century staircase has turned newels and stick balusters.

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 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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