Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Farmhouse.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-tower-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Hill Road, Hempstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 627 379
- Coordinates
- 52.01575, 0.37013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a timber-framed and plastered building that dates from the 17th to 18th century, with most of its external features from the 18th to 19th century. The north and south fronts are gabled at the east end. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-window range on the south and east fronts, which consist of double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground storey has splayed bays. The roof is tiled and includes one central square chimney stack, along with two additional stacks that each have two square shafts.
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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