Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Hill House

WRENN ID
open-hinge-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hill House, Fen Street, Winston
OS grid reference
TM 179 623
Coordinates
52.21635, 1.18927
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill House is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century and built in two stages. It has two storeys and features a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and pebble-dashed, topped with a plain tiled roof that includes a 16th or 17th century axial chimney made of red brick. The building mainly has 20th century casement windows with three lights, and those on the ground floor have transoms. The three chamber windows have deep projecting cills, which may be remnants of early oriel windows, though they are currently obscured by pebble-dash. The entrance door, located at the cross-entry, is a four-panelled door from the 19th or 20th century.

The timber framing is largely hidden but includes notable features such as arch wind-braced close studding and a wind-braced clasped-purlin roof in the main range. There is a blocked open fireplace in the hall with a wide and deep lintel. The higher parlour block is slightly later and contains an original newel staircase with two flights. The attic retains its original structure, featuring a two-tier wind-braced side purlin roof with heavy reduced principal rafters; the upper tier of purlins is clasped while the lower tier is butted.

Local climate

Hill House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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