Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Detached house.

Hill House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Detached house
Address
Hill House, Church Hill, Abbas and Templecombe
OS grid reference
ST 707 226
Coordinates
51.00275, -2.41766
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill House is a detached house dating from the 18th century and has been modified over time. It is constructed from local stone coursed rubble with ashlar dressing and features a plain clay tile roof with simple gables, set behind a low parapet on the north elevation. The house has rendered end chimney stacks and is two storeys high with three bays. It has a plinth, a simple course moulded and plain parapet, and keystones with smooth ashlar surrounds, featuring triple keystones above four-pane sash windows. The central bay includes a six-fielded panel door with a Regency pattern cast iron semi-circular fanlight above, set in a painted timber surround with fluted Tuscan pilasters that support an entablature adorned with metopes and rosettes, topped with an ovolo pediment. The interior has not been seen. Hill House appears on the Tithe commissioners map of 1839.

Local climate

Hill House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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