NHER 45711 (Building record) - Hill Farmhouse

Hill Farmhouse.

1983. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"Early 18th-century L-plan Lobby Entrance house with off-centre axial chimneystack and gable end chimneystack. Brick with pantiled roof. Two storeys and attic. Originally of four bays with tall segmental arched window openings now blocked. At present of three bays with three-light casements beneath skewback arches with cambered soffits."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 7 September 2006. Amended by J. Cullis (HES), 23 December 2019.

April 1988. Building Survey.
Examined by A. Carter (UEA).
Late 17th-century L-shaped building seemingly purpose-built as a farm. A date of c. 1680 is suggested by the form of the roof, by the tall narrow proportion of the windows (placed strangely high in the walls) and by the absence of vitrified-brick patterning other than in the heads of the windows. The plan of the building is also typically late 17th century rather than 18th century. The position of the dairy within the service wing is also indicative of a 17th-century date, as are the oeil-de bouef windows used in both gables of the domestic range. The house was modernised in the late 18th century, when many of the late 17th-century windows were blocked up and new ones cut. It is possible that the existing cellar and pantry arrangement date to this period. A second period of modernisation occurred from the late 19th century onwards, the most obvious features of this date being the windows and a number of the architraves.
See report (S2) for a comprehensive description of this building.
P. Watkins (HES), 29 November 2017.