Hillhouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. House. 8 related planning applications.
Hillhouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- noble-lintel-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hillhouse Farmhouse, Lodge Lane, Ardleigh, CO7 7RD
- OS grid reference
- TM 034 285
- Coordinates
- 51.91855, 0.95742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillhouse Farmhouse is a house dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of red brick with black headers and has a red plain tiled roof. The rear features a wing. The main part of the house is two storeys and has a central band. The front elevation has a three-window range of tripartite small-paned vertically sliding sash windows, each with a gauged brick arch. A single light window is centrally positioned on the first floor. The central doorway is a four-panel design with two lights above, and is sheltered by a flat canopy supported by two columns and two pilasters, complete with capitals and bases.
Local climate
Hillhouse Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 2014
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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