Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- vast-plaster-lark
- 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, Boxted Cross
- OS grid reference
- TM 004 325
- Coordinates
- 51.95562, 0.9156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a 16th-century house built in an extended H-plan, framed in timber and plastered, with no front jetties. The roofs are ridged, gabled, and covered with peg tiles, featuring eaves. The house has two cross wings, and together with the hall range, it includes a total of five casement windows, with the two end windows having flat hood moulds. The central front door is set in an Egyptian wood case, and the door leaf has an integral Y-traceried fanlight. On the ground storey, there are four casement windows, all under flat hood moulds. A red brick chimney stack is located on the line of the left cross wing. The property is also adorned with 19th-century iron railings and a central gate along the road frontage.
Local climate
Hill House 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings