Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- keen-pillar-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill House, Swan Street, Chappel
- OS grid reference
- TL 893 280
- Coordinates
- 51.91855, 0.75214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a 16th-century house located on Swan Street, facing north-south. Originally timber framed and now plastered with ashlar markings, it has an L-shaped plan, with a wing extending eastwards from the southern end. A gault brick chimney is situated in the return of the plan. The windows are a mixture of early sash windows and casements, and the house features numerous Regency-era details, including lion masks and marginal glazing bars. The roofs are ridged, gabled, and covered in peg tiles.
Local climate
Hill House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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