Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-steel-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Yarmouth Road, Gillingham, South Norfolk, NR34 0EE
- OS grid reference
- TM 423 924
- Coordinates
- 52.47618, 1.56675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse with an earlier core, located on Yarmouth Road in Gillingham. The building is constructed of colourwashed brick and features a roof made of smut and black glazed pantiles. It has two storeys and attics, with a 1.5-storey wing at the rear, creating an L-shaped plan. The south facade is asymmetrical, highlighted by an off-centre gabled stair turret opposite a large axial red brick chimney stack.
The windows are sash style with glazing bars and architraves, arranged in a pattern of 2:1:2:1. On the ground floor, there are two tripartite sashes to the east of the stair turret, with a doorway situated between the window openings. Above the door, there is a blind first-floor window opening. A plain brick pilaster to the east of the doorway divides the end bay and indicates a change in construction. The eaves feature a sawtooth brick course, and the gables are parapeted, with an internal chimney stack at the east end.
The attic includes two gabled dormers fitted with 20th-century casements, as well as a 2-light casement in the east gable. The lower wing at the north-east corner is rendered and colourwashed, possibly covering a timber frame, and has two 3-light casements. The north gable features a 3-light first-floor casement with glazing bars and a 3-light ground-floor slatted vent. There is a catslide roof on the east side with a gabled attic dormer. Additionally, the north side of the main range has a two-storey gabled projection that corresponds to the stair turret on the south, with sashes that have glazing bars and two blocked first-floor openings.
Local climate
Hill Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 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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