Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. House.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-bonework-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill House, London Road, North Weald Bassett
- OS grid reference
- TL 474 081
- Coordinates
- 51.75281, 0.13406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a house from the 18th century that was converted into cottages in the 19th century and later combined, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building is primarily timber framed and plastered, with some brickwork, and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. It is aligned approximately east-west, featuring a two-storey elevation of plastered timber framing with a short roof pitch to the north, and a single-storey elevation of painted brickwork with a catslide roof to the south. There are two internal chimney stacks in the catslide roof.
To the east, there is a single-storey extension from the 20th century that connects to a coach-house/stable block from the 18th or 19th century, creating an L-shaped plan. The stable block is roofed with 19th-century red clay pantiles. On the south elevation, there are two 20th-century doors, one of which is half-glazed and the other is sheltered by a tiled bracketed hood. Additionally, there are two 19th or 20th-century casement windows, along with an early 19th-century double-hung sash window with nine lights. The building also features two early 20th-century casement windows in gabled dormers.
Originally, the entrance was on the north side, but this has now become the garden elevation, with the main approach from the south. Some of the timber framing is exposed internally, particularly on the ground floor, where transverse beams are plain chamfered with simple concave stops.
Local climate
Hill House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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