Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. Villa.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- under-hammer-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Hill House, Surley Row
- OS grid reference
- SU 717 757
- Coordinates
- 51.47638, -0.96767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a large villa from the early 19th century, located on Surley Row. The building has been divided and significantly altered internally, featuring a thin front to the west. It has four main bays plus a gable end, and is two storeys high, constructed of stucco with a parapet adorned with urns. There is a Victorian lean-to verandah at the front. The central doorway has a six-panel door with sidelights and a patterned segmental fanlight above it. On the south side, there are five bays with a slight break in the centre three, a string course above the first-floor windows, a small moulded cornice, and a panelled balustrade with grouped balusters over the three central windows. The roof is slate, and the windows are glazing bar sash types, with the second and fourth windows being tripartite. The central door is flanked by outer ground floor windows that have segmental heads, which were formerly doorways.
Local climate
Hill House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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