Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dim-chalk-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, West Road, Forncett
- OS grid reference
- TM 139 935
- Coordinates
- 52.49741, 1.15104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a building that likely dates from the 17th or 18th century but was rebuilt in the early 19th century using painted brick. It features a black glazed pantile roof with gabled ends and has a central brick chimney stack. The farmhouse is two storeys tall with an attic, which includes windows in the gable ends. There are two sash windows with glazing bars on the front, and a central doorcase that has reeded pilasters and an entablature with triglyphs in the frieze, leading to a panelled door. The brick chimney stack is positioned off centre. To the left, there is a projecting wing that forms an L-shaped plan; this wing is mostly brick faced but has a plastered timber-frame and also features a pantile roof with gabled ends. An external chimney stack is located on the east side of this wing.
Local climate
Hill 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 89% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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