West Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House.
West Hill House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-sentry-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Hill House, 87, Horringer Road, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 842 631
- Coordinates
- 52.23552, 0.69725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Hill House is an early 19th-century house located on Horringer Road in Bury St Edmunds. The building is constructed of white brick and features a fully hipped slate roof. It has two internal chimney stacks with plain rectangular white brick shafts.
The house is two storeys high and has a three-window range, with 12-pane sash windows in cased frames that have shallow reveals and flat gauged arches. On the ground floor, there is a 16-pane sash window on the right and an inserted three-light flat-roofed canted bay on the left, with the middle sash featuring single vertical glazing bars. The entrance is a six-panelled door, with the top four panels filled with Edwardian coloured glass. The doorcase is adorned with a wood architrave and a bracketed cornice hood.
At the rear of the house, there is a former stable block that has been converted into living accommodation. This block is linked to the house by a long shallow-roofed lean-to and is constructed of flint and red brick, also featuring a hipped slate roof. It is two storeys tall and has three two-light small-paned casement windows. The ground floor includes double doors in a segmental-arched surround on the left, a smaller door with a rectangular fanlight in a plain segmental-arched surround on the right, and a 20th-century window between. The interior of the house has not been inspected.
Local climate
West Hill House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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