Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1993. House.

Hill House

WRENN ID
hollow-quartz-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1993
Type
House
Address
Hill House, Hill House Road
OS grid reference
TG 243 085
Coordinates
52.62807, 1.31322
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill House is a house built around 1840, with extensions added in the late 19th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond gault brick, featuring a stuccoed plinth and entablature with a cornice and blocking course. The roof is hipped, made of concrete tiles and slate, and there are gault brick axial stacks. The house has a square double-depth plan, with a front room on either side of a central entrance hall that leads to an antechamber and a large room at the back. A small winder staircase rises from the left side of the hall. The late 19th-century service wing on the left side largely replaces earlier service areas.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a three-bay northeast front. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor features tall 15-pane sashes with cills at floor level and gauged brick flat arches. The central doorway is framed by a stuccoed architrave and cornice on console brackets, with a raised panel above and a rectangular overlight with glazing bars. The door itself is panelled. There is a one-bay, three-storey late 19th-century extension on the left with smaller 12-pane sashes. The northwest and southwest elevations are similar, with the northwest featuring a large 15-pane sash in a central architrave like that of the front doorway. The southwest elevation lacks a central feature but has a fourth bay slightly set back on the right with a later ground floor bay window.

Inside, much of the original joinery remains, including panelled doors with moulded architraves and carved corner blocks, as well as panelled window shutters. The ceilings have moulded plaster cornices, and there is a niche in the hall. The small winder staircase has a moulded mahogany handrail that is wreathed around the balustrade at the top. There is also a white marble chimneypiece.

Local climate

Hill House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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