Hill Place is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House.
Hill Place
- WRENN ID
- twisted-mullion-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Place, High Street, Great Bardfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 675 305
- Coordinates
- 51.9481, 0.43619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Place is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in modern red clay tiles. The building has four bays facing southeast and features an external stack made of gault brick, which is partly plastered, on the left return wall, as well as an internal stack at the rear of the right end, with an 18th or 19th-century extension beyond.
The house is two storeys high and has two 2-storey bays with 20th-century casement windows, along with a mid-19th-century sash window of four lights on each floor. Above the door is a Gothick window with a two-centred head. The entrance features a six-panel door, with the upper four panels glazed, set within a moulded doorcase that has a dentilled pediment. The roof has a plain plaster parapet and is hipped.
Inside, the main structure is plastered, but some of the 17th-century oak frame is visible in a few places. While many of the beams over the ground floor have been significantly altered for plastering, two of them still show their stop-chamfered profiles with lamb's tongue stops.
Local climate
Hill Place 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 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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