How Hill House

How Hill House is a house built in 1903 with later additions by E.T. Boardman. It features roughcast brick and a thatched roof, designed in a T plan and standing two and a half storeys tall. There are single-storey service wings to the north and east, and a bow-fronted living room over a basement-level loggia to the south. The house is built in a vernacular Jacobean style, showcasing irregular fenestration with lead-glazed casements and pargetted architraves featuring a trailing vine pattern, along with projecting stone hood moulds.

On the east end of the south front, there is a two-storey splayed bay window topped with a stone parapet in an open strapwork design. To the left of the bay window is a stone porch with an open semi-circular pediment supported by consoles on rusticated pilasters, inscribed with "T. B. 1904, F. E. B." The north elevation has a wide gabled projection with two bull's eye windows at each end and irregular fenestration. The roofs are gabled with moulded timber bargeboards, featuring three eyebrow dormers and one gabled dormer on the north side. The ironwork includes scrolled gutter brackets, inscribed hopper heads, door handles, latches, and window furniture.

The interior retains much of its original character, including a panelled hall, staircase, and sitting room, along with fitted cupboards in the bedrooms and landing, and moulded chimney pieces, all reflecting a Country House style. E.T. Boardman, who designed and built the house, was a notable figure, serving as Lord Mayor of Norwich in 1905 and High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1933. His firm, E. Boardman and Sons, was known for designing country houses, chapels, and public buildings in East Anglia during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.