Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-cloister-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Thaxted Road, Great Sampford, CB10 2QE
- OS grid reference
- TL 641 349
- Coordinates
- 51.98858, 0.38919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, built on an L-shaped plan with a gabled wing to the north-west. The house has two storeys and attics. The front has a three-window range of double-hung sash windows with vertical glazing bars. The roof is tiled, with an original central chimney stack featuring grouped shafts set diagonally on a square base. Inside, the house retains exposed ceiling beams and joists, as well as an original open fireplace.
Local climate
Hill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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