Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- woven-basalt-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Brent Eleigh
- OS grid reference
- TL 933 478
- Coordinates
- 52.09515, 0.82114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a 16th- to 17th-century timber-framed building with exposed timber framing on its front elevation. The farmhouse has been renovated and extended, featuring cross wings at the north and south ends. It is two storeys high, with the upper storey jettied across the entire front, supported by exposed joists and curved brackets. The front has five windows, which are modern casements with mullions, transoms and leaded lights. The roof is tiled with a ridge chimney stack having diagonal shafts.
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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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