Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
empty-bonework-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hill Farmhouse, Sternfield
OS grid reference
TM 398 617
Coordinates
52.20187, 1.50794
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with an L-shaped plan. It is timber framed and has a roughcast render exterior, topped with a plaintiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring various casement windows, some of which are missing. There is a mid-19th century corner porch with a plaintiled roof, which has an overhang supported on console brackets, small pane sash windows, and a six-panel door. Inside, there is an internal stack in the south wing and an external stack in the north wing. Additionally, there is a pantiled lean-to extension on the east side.

Local climate

Hill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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