Hill House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Hill House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- south-bastion-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill House Farmhouse, Offton, IP8 4RS
- OS grid reference
- TM 050 495
- Coordinates
- 52.10628, 0.99298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the mid 19th century. The building has two storeys and is timber-framed, encased in 19th-century gault brick, featuring flat corner pilasters. The roof is plaintiled and has an axial red brick chimney with a distinctive saw-tooth pattern shaft.
On the ground floor, there are mid 19th-century sash windows with large panes, while the upper storey has late 20th-century metal casements. The entrance door, which is also from the 19th century, is panelled with glazed upper panels and is framed by a broad reeded architrave and panelled reveals. Inside, the studwork is very closely spaced and partly exposed. The parlour and the chamber above feature ovolo moulded main beams, and one wall contains a blocked ovolo-mullioned window.
To the right, there is a short cross-wing that houses the service rooms; this section is structurally separate and may be slightly older. Additionally, a small backhouse was added at the rear in the 18th century, which includes a large cooking fireplace.
Local climate
Hill House Farmhouse 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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