Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- worn-rampart-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill House, Cappell Lane, Stanstead Abbots, SG12 8DA
- OS grid reference
- TL 386 123
- Coordinates
- 51.79246, 0.00917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a house dating from around 1800, with rear extensions added around 1900. It is constructed of yellow brick with stucco features and has a half-hipped slate roof behind parapets. The building is two storeys tall with attics and has a double pile plan, featuring separate end chimneys.
The front of the house, which faces west, is symmetrical with five windows. There are paired windows on each side of the centre, which are recessed sash windows with stone sills, stucco flat arches, and 6/6 panes. The house has a plinth with a chamfered offset course, a stucco band, and a moulded cornice, along with stone coping on the parapet.
The entrance features a six-panelled raised and fielded door set in a panelled recess, surrounded by a pilastered wooden doorcase with a triangular open pediment on consoles. Above the door is a glazed fan in a rectangular opening. The entrance is accessed by seven stone steps with a wrought iron rail supported by scrolled balusters, which sweep outwards on the longer step at the foot. There are also sunblind cases. On the south wall, there is a large 19th-century wooden conservatory with a convex curved lean-to roof.
Local climate
Hill House 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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