Old Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Old Hill House
- WRENN ID
- odd-iron-sorrel
- 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
- Old Hill House, Fordstreet Hill, Aldham
- OS grid reference
- TL 923 263
- Coordinates
- 51.90265, 0.79456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hill House is a 18th-century building with a front elevation that features 15th-century framing and 17th-century additions. The front is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and has three windows across two storeys. It includes three gabled dormers and a ridged, gabled roof covered with peg tiles, along with red brick chimney stacks at each end gable. The ground storey has a central front door with a later gault brick porch; the door itself consists of six fielded panels set in a wide wooden case. The windows below have curved heads, are not gauged, and consist of pairs of 8-pane sashes in exposed boxes. The first storey has matching windows under straight heads. The building features eaves and troughing. A substantial 16th-century frame is present at the south of the front range, which was raised to create a first storey in the 17th century.
Local climate
Old 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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