Hill Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1962. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Hill Farm House
- WRENN ID
- open-pillar-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Farm House, High Street, Seend, SN12 6RU
- OS grid reference
- ST 951 611
- Coordinates
- 51.34978, -2.07124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, constructed with a timber frame and stone slate roofs. It stands one and a half to two storeys tall and consists of two main sections, both featuring exposed framing. The left section is a two-storey range, likely from the 16th century, while the right section is a one and a half storey range from the 15th century, which includes a 17th-century gable on the left and a 20th-century addition on the right.
The left section has a two-window range of casement windows and a door to the right set in a gabled stone slate porch. It displays exposed timbers, including a heavy curved tension brace on the first floor, while the left side has mostly been rebuilt in rubble stone. There is also a rendered lean-to on the end wall with a pantiled roof. The right section features a timber-framed gable on the left above a roughcast ground floor with a triple casement window, and rubble stone on the right side. A ridge stack is present, and the roughcast section to the right has been rebuilt in the 20th century, with a gabled wing at the back.
At the rear, the two-storey section reveals exposed timbering with four large tension braces and a glazed lean-to that runs the full length of the building. Inside, there are two full cruck trusses from the former open hall, with some blackened rafters. A dormer gable was likely added when the hall was floored, and the interior features heavy chamfered spine beams.
Local climate
Hill Farm House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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