Hill House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. House.

Hill House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
white-remnant-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1991
Type
House
Address
Hill House Farmhouse, Shotesham Road, Woodton
OS grid reference
TM 278 945
Coordinates
52.50089, 1.3554
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill House Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, constructed of colour-washed brick and timber frame, topped with a glazed black pantile roof. It likely features a hall and cross-passage plan with flanking cross-wings. The facade consists of four bays, with two stories and attics. The left gabled bay is set forward and has an off-centre ground floor window in the brick wall. The first floor jetties out and has a rendered timber frame, featuring a four-light casement window, while the attic has a three-light casement. The remaining three bays are of brick and include two three-light casements, with a 19th-century door and overlight between them. There are three casements on the first floor, and the fourth bay has a gable with a bressumer beam and an attic casement. An off-centre axial stack has two octagonal shafts, and the right gable end stack also has two octagonal shafts leading to a stepped gable. At the rear, there is a 17th-century brick stair bay with a six-light mullioned and transomed window featuring ovolo moulding, along with a 19th-century wing and outshut.

Inside, the hall occupies the central two bays and features a roll-moulded massive transverse beam. The left crosswing has a roll-moulded beam adorned with carved foliage decoration. The stair bay off the hall includes a staircase with turned balusters and newels topped with spheres. The roof has butt-purlins and arch-braces in the left bay, while the rest of the roof is inaccessible.

Local climate

Hill House Farmhouse 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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