Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
Hill House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-outpost-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill House, the Downs, Wickwar, GL12 8JZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 721 886
- Coordinates
- 51.59613, -2.40394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House is a detached house built in the early 18th century and restored in 1968 by C. Phillimore of London. The exterior is rendered and features a hipped roof made of Cotswold stone slate. It has a moulded eaves cornice and reconstructed central brick stacks, showcasing a Queen Anne style. The house has two storeys and attics with 19th-century dormers, and it consists of five bays with 18-pane sash windows that have thick glazing bars and plain surrounds. The central entrance is a six-panel door with an overlight above it. To the south (left), there is a two-storey, two-bay service wing that includes a return of one bay, also featuring glazing bar sash windows.
Local climate
Hill House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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