Philips Hill House and Forecourt Walls is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1983. House.
Philips Hill House and Forecourt Walls
- WRENN ID
- high-joist-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Philips Hill House and Forecourt Walls, Chieveley
- OS grid reference
- SU 469 724
- Coordinates
- 51.44879, -1.32624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Philip's Hill House is a house built in 1907 by Mervyn Macartney. It is constructed of red brick with orange dressings, featuring raised quoins, a stone plinth, and a deep wooden modillion eaves cornice that supports a hipped tile roof. The house is designed in the Caroline style and has two storeys plus an attic, with four hipped dormers. The façade consists of two bays, five central bays, and two more bays, all fitted with glazing bar sash windows in exposed wooden boxes. The ground floor is adorned with a Doric colonnade that includes a triangular pedimented centrepiece and a panelled door, connecting the projecting wings of the house. Surrounding the property are projecting brick forecourt walls to the north, approximately one metre high, which ramp up to panelled quadrant corners and feature ball finials on the corner piers. The building is referenced in the Buildings of England, Berkshire, page 307, and is shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Bussock Wood.
Local climate
Philips Hill House and Forecourt Walls receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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