Hill House School is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. School. 2 related planning applications.
Hill House School
- WRENN ID
- solitary-soffit-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- Hill House School, Rope Hill, Boldre, SO41 8NE
- OS grid reference
- SZ 315 982
- Coordinates
- 50.78255, -1.55329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House School is a late 18th-century villa that has been altered and extended in the early and late 20th centuries. The building is constructed of roughcast brick with a plain tile roof and brick stacks. Originally a two-story, three-bay front pile, it is joined by a slightly lower, ridged rear pile. A matching two-bay wing has been added to the rear pile, overlooking the garden, forming an L-shape. Further single-story additions and a late 20th-century service infill are present.
The original south-facing entrance front is two stories and has an attic, with three bays. The central bay features a full-height semicircular bow, accessed by a stone step. The entrance is a top-lit door with eight octagonal panels, set under a three-centred head. Small sash windows with similar heads flank the entrance. Three more sash windows are on the first floor, with the middle window being larger. Rendered plinths and large lozenge-pane sashes, also with three-centred heads, are present on either side. A raised band marks the first floor. A two-light casement replaces a sash window on the right-hand side. The roof has two 20th-century hipped dormers with Diocletian windows and tile hanging. There is a hipped roof over the canted end bays and a half-conical roof to the central projection.
Local climate
Hill House School receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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