Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-rafter-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hill Farmhouse, Abthorpe, NN12 8PB
- OS grid reference
- SP 660 472
- Coordinates
- 52.1198, -1.0366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around 1840. It features coursed squared ironstone on the main block and red brick in English bond on the wings, topped with hipped slate roofs and brick internal stacks. The building is arranged in a U-plan and is two stories high with a three-window range. The central entrance has a double-leaf part-glazed door with panelled reveals, framed by a painted limestone surround that includes Doric half-columns supporting an entablature adorned with triglyphs and metopes. The windows on both the ground and first floors are 16-pane sash windows with flat-arched heads, and the eaves are deep and overhanging. The two-story wings at the rear contain 2- and 3-light casement windows with segmental-arched heads. The interior has not been inspected. This farmhouse is one of several model farms constructed for the 4th Duke of Grafton between 1839 and 1844.
Local climate
Hill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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