Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-loggia-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Pipers Lane, Markyate, AL3 8QG
- OS grid reference
- TL 060 179
- Coordinates
- 51.85039, -0.46132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse, with a lower west extension dating to the early 18th century, and a plaque indicating construction in 1695. The main structure is two storeys with an attic and a cellar. It is constructed of banded English bond brickwork, featuring red stretchers and blue headers, with deep coved plaster eaves and a steep roof covered in old red tiles. The house has a symmetrical design on both its north and south fronts, along with a lower two-storey west extension and a brick outhouse connected to the southwest corner. The south front, facing the road, features a plat band, a hipped dormer on the west roof slope, five sash windows with 8/8 panes on the first floor, two 3-light casement windows on the ground floor, and a central four-panel door with a rectangular fanlight, accessed by three steps. The north front, facing the yard, has a plaster date plaque above the central door, a plat band over the doorhead, and two windows on each side on the first and ground floors, and to the cellar. Two windows from the east on each floor and two windows from the west on the ground floor are blocked. A segmental arch frames the entrance door. The west extension features a plat band, a corbelled eaves band, a 2-light casement window on the first floor, and a rectangular bay window on the ground floor. The interior retains chamfered axial beams and squared joists. Internal gable chimneys are present at each end, with a larger open fireplace at the west end.
Local climate
Hill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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