Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. A C16/C17 Residential.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-niche-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Hill House, B1029, Stratford St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TM 054 350
- Coordinates
- 51.9758, 0.98943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a house that dates back to the 16th century for its cross wing, with a hall range from the 17th century, featuring later alterations and additions. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with some sections in red brick. It has a plain tile roof and a rebuilt red brick stack. The house is two storeys high and consists of a two-cell lobby-entry hall range with a two-bay cross wing to the right, which has been extended to the rear at a later date. There is a 20th-century conservatory at the rear and a lower porch that connects to a later building, which is not of special interest. A 19th-century gabled porch features a half-glazed door. The hall range has 16-pane sash windows, while the cross wing has a 12-pane sash window. There are also 20th-century casements with glazing bars above. The cross wing is at a slightly lower level, and the right return features trench windows with a casement above. The roof has a swept ridge stack.
Inside the cross wing, there are beams with run-out and step stops, jowled posts, and a studded wall on the first floor. The hall range includes a chamfered beam and exposed joists. The kitchen features a chamfered basket-arched fireplace made of orange brick, and there is reused timber with fine leaf scroll carving and shields, one bearing the initial "I," serving as the bressummer of the hall fireplace. The roofs are clasped purlin types.
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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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