Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Hill House

WRENN ID
winter-lantern-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hill House, Stowmarket Road, Needham Market, IP6 8EA
OS grid reference
TM 081 555
Coordinates
52.15868, 1.04151
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill House is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with significant remodeling in the late 19th century. It has a three-cell plan and stands two storeys high with attics. The building features a 19th-century red brick exterior that encases a 17th-century timber-framed core. The design includes parapets with a dentilled cornice and shallow pilasters at the corners. The gable ends have parapets and 19th-century external end chimneys made of red brick, each with twin diagonally-set square shafts topped with oversailing caps. The roof is plaintiled and has a 17th-century axial chimney made of red brick, which includes three octagonal shafts with moulded bases. The windows are 19th-century sashes set within brick frames that project slightly, featuring splayed cambered heads. There is a shallow 19th-century entrance porch made of red brick with a flat parapet roof, which has a pair of glazed doors and an oblong fanlight. Inside, the house is believed to have good early 18th-century bolection-moulded panelling in the entrance hall and fireplaces in other rooms. To the right, there is an early 19th-century single-storey service wing, and to the left, a late 19th-century rear wing.

Local climate

Hill House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 26 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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