Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. A C18 Farmhouse.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vacant-balcony-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Manor Road, Hessett
- OS grid reference
- TL 930 600
- Coordinates
- 52.20501, 0.82414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the early to mid-18th century, with alterations made around 1930. The building has two storeys and features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. It is timber-framed and clad in hardboard sheeting, which was once plastered. The roof is covered with concrete tiles, although it was originally pantiled. There is an axial chimney made of 18th-century red brick and a 19th-century gable chimney on the left side. The windows are small-pane steel casements from around 1930, and there is a plaintiled entrance porch from the same period, featuring a boarded and battened door. Inside, the farmhouse has complete and interesting oak framing that is exposed throughout. Each storey post has a well-formed scrolled jowl at its head. The interior also includes good chamfered main beams and on-edge floor joists, as well as back-to-back lintelled open fireplaces.
Local climate
Hill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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