Hill Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Farmhouse.
Hill Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- small-cinder-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Top Farmhouse, Bruisyard
- OS grid reference
- TM 321 668
- Coordinates
- 52.25072, 1.40035
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Top Farmhouse is a farmhouse that consists of several sections, primarily dating from the 16th century, with the rear section possibly being even older. The main range to the north is likely from the mid-16th century. Both the main range and a later addition are set forward and are now connected by further additions made around 1950. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof. It features a mix of single storey and attic spaces, as well as two storeys, with the main range being two storeys and an attic.
The farmhouse has various casement windows from the mid-20th century and a mid-20th century entrance door. Notably, at the rear of the main range, there is a good original five-light slightly projecting moulded mullion window. The gable ends of the main range have small pent roofs at eaves level, which protect the first-floor windows. Each main section has one internal stack. Inside the main range, there is fine exposed framing with tension braces and two good diamond mullion windows on the first floor. The right-hand wing features re-used moulded beams on the ground floor, which may have been brought from elsewhere in the house.
Local climate
Hill Top Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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