Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. A C16 Farmhouse.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- waiting-passage-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Rumburgh Road, Wissett
- OS grid reference
- TM 356 799
- Coordinates
- 52.36689, 1.46027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 16th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and faced in late 19th century colour-washed brick, with the sides and rear rendered. The roof is covered with pantiles and there is an internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft. The building has 20th-century casement windows and a door.
Inside, the timber framing is exposed, showcasing widely spaced studding and a frame consisting of four irregularly spaced bays, including a chimney bay. On either side of the stack, the rooms have main beams and joists that feature chamfer and ogee stops. The service area remains unheated and does not appear to have originally been divided into two. There is a newel stair located beside the stack.
On the upper floor, the main posts have long jowls, with arched braces to the end and partition walls, and reversed braces to the long walls. Several original windows are blocked. The upper ceilings are original to the house. The roof structure includes diminished principals, clasped purlins, and cranked windbraces.
Local climate
Hill Farmhouse 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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