Hill Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Cottage.

Hill Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
hollow-gable-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1975
Type
Cottage
Address
Hill Farm Cottage, Mill Lane, Broomfield, CM1 7TQ
OS grid reference
TL 717 105
Coordinates
51.76702, 0.48691
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Farm Cottage is a 16th to 17th century timber-framed and plastered house featuring a cross wing at the east end. The building has two storeys, with a three-window arrangement on the south front and a two-window arrangement on the east side, both fitted with casement windows. There is a boarded door, and the roof is tiled. Inside, the cottage showcases exposed ceiling beams and joists.

Local climate

Hill Farm Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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