Hill Farmhouse

Hill Farmhouse is an early 16th and early 17th century farmhouse located in Flixton, near Bungay. It is a two-storey and attic timber-framed building, now rendered and covered with plaintiles. A jetty is visible along the south-west gable, supported by brackets, with a projecting tie-beam at eaves level. The house has an internal chimney-stack with two rebuilt square red brick shafts featuring large attached heads, set on an older base. The windows are irregularly placed; most are three-light casements, likely dating back to the Edwardian period. A late 19th century brick porch has colourwashed brickwork, plaintiles, fluted barge-boards, a spike finial, and a chamfered and arched door surround leading to a plank door.

The interior is notably fine, divided into two distinct sections. The south-west section contains a two-bay parlour with multiple roll-mouldings to the main beam and joists, featuring run-out stops. These mouldings continue down the main posts, though they have been cut away, and the boarding between the joists remains unplastered. The fireplace lintel mirrors the roll-moulding. Two tall, five-light windows with moulded mullions are found in the gable-end; they are partly damaged and originally flanked a longer central window, which has since been replaced. The room above, now divided, retains heavily moulded cross beams and a cornice, with two unusual outer windows in the gable featuring arched spandrels to the heads, likely originally flanking an oriel. The roof is a good example, constructed with arched braces to the collars and collar purlins. The chimney-bay and these three bays form the oldest surviving part of the house, indicating an addition to an earlier hall range. On the north-east side of the chimney stack, a fireplace lintel with a matching moulding is present, though a join in the frame, with two trusses next to each other on the line of the stack, signifies that the remaining two bays are an early 17th century replacement, featuring heavy unchamfered joists, chamfered post-heads, and a roof with closely-set principal rafters.