Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- half-minaret-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill House, Mellis Road, Burgate, IP22 1QD
- OS grid reference
- TM 087 758
- Coordinates
- 52.34124, 1.06247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the early 17th century. It underwent cased and partial reroofing in the early 19th century, with further rebuilding and extension occurring in the late 19th century. The structure features a timber frame that is plastered, with some sections cased in red brick. The roofs are steeply pitched and covered with black glazed and machine-made pantiles.
The building appears as a three-cell lobby entry front range, with a parallel two-cell block at the rear, which includes earlier sections to the rear and front left, although the original plan is not clearly defined. It stands two storeys high with attics. The entrance is located to the left of centre, accessed through a gabled porch that features a six-fielded panelled architraved door and a rectangular fanlight, along with wavy bargeboards. The windows on the ground floor are C19 two-light architraved glazing bar casements, with hoodboards above. The eaves are boxed, and there is an axial ridge stack with moulded capping and three conjoined diagonal flues. The left gable end has a small attic casement, with exposed plates and purlins.
The parallel range at the rear has a slightly lower ridge and exposed purlins on the rendered left gable end. The rear façade features red brick facing, with a ground floor entrance to the right that includes a six-reeded panelled door, a blind entrance to the left, and two recessed two-light casements. The first floor has a 16-pane sash window and a three-light leaded casement, with a central ridge stack. The roof is hipped towards the inner brick-faced return, which has various casements and a 20th-century lean-to entrance porch.
Inside, the left cell of the front range displays ground floor close studding, an ogee stop chamfered axial binding beam, run-out chamfered joists, and a stop chamfered fireplace bressumer. The first floor features a bar stop chamfered binding beam and a double purlin roof with lower butt purlins, upper clasped purlins, and reverse curved windbraces. The centre section has been completely rebuilt, while the right side dates to the 19th century. The rear bays have altered framing on the ground floor, and the first floor includes six-light ovolo mullion and transomed window openings, as well as three-light diamond mullioned window openings, with close studding present.
Local climate
Hill House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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