Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Farmhouse.

Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
little-stronghold-auburn
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 Farmhouse, Elmsett Road, Somersham
OS grid reference
TM 067 486
Coordinates
52.09759, 1.01659
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with an extension added in the early 19th century. It has a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and stands two storeys high with attics. The building is timber-framed, now covered in painted 19th-century brick, although some cable-pattern pargetting can be seen at the rear within a 19th-century outshut. The roof is slated, with the rear slope covered in plain tiles. There are axial and end chimneys made of 19th-century red brick. The windows are early 19th-century small-pane sash windows, with the ground storey windows featuring sidelights and segmental heads made of gauged brick. The entrance door is a six-panelled design from the early 19th century. The left-hand block of the farmhouse was added in brick during the early 19th century. Inside, the complete timber-framing is exposed, with the main first and attic floor members featuring plain ovolo-mouldings.

Local climate

Hill 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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