Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. House. 5 related planning applications.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- low-gutter-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill House, Wades Lane, Shotley, IP9 1EW
- OS grid reference
- TM 238 367
- Coordinates
- 51.9841, 1.25822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a house dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, with later 19th-century extensions to the north. It is constructed of painted gault brick, with a hipped grey slate roof and off-centre and rear chimneystacks. The two-storey facade has a three-window range of small-paned vertically sliding sash windows, each with a gauged brick arch. Shutters are fitted to the windows, except for the first-floor centre window, which has an elegant cast iron balcony. A central tent porch made of lead, with scalloped decoration, is supported by three elaborate openwork cast iron columns, and features a 20th-century glazed door. Notable internal features include 18th and 19th-century fire surrounds to most rooms, characterised by moulded decoration with fluted pilasters, swags, urns and paterae; moulded cast iron hob and basket grates are present, with only one main room lacking an early surround. Stick balusters are found on both the main and servants' stairs.
Local climate
Hill House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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