Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. House. 4 related planning applications.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- inner-zinc-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill House, 183, Lexden Road, CO3 3TE
- OS grid reference
- TL 972 252
- Coordinates
- 51.89056, 0.86559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a late 18th century, double bow-fronted house located on Lexden Road. It is constructed of grey gault brick and has two storeys with slate roofs. The front features double hung sash windows with glazing bars, a Doric porch, panelled reveals, a six-panel door, and a rectangular fanlight. This building is a complete and unaltered example of its period.
Local climate
Hill House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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