St Michael's Cottage and Hillcroft is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. House.
St Michael's Cottage and Hillcroft
- WRENN ID
- waiting-bastion-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Michael's Cottage and Hillcroft, St Michael's Lane, Bolton-Le-Sands
- OS grid reference
- SD 482 677
- Coordinates
- 54.10332, -2.79218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Michael's Cottage and Hillcroft is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of pebbledashed rubble and features a slate roof. The building is two storeys tall, with cellars at the rear, and has three bays. The windows are sashed with glazing bars and have plain stone surrounds. The entrance door is set in a plain stone surround between the second and third bays. There are gable stacks and copings, with an additional stack located between the first and second bays. The left-hand gable faces the lane and includes a sashed window with a plain stone surround on each floor, along with a doorway that has plain reveals. The rear wall overlooks the canal. The left-hand end features a sashed window with glazing bars and a plain stone surround on both floors. In the center, there is a two-storey wooden bay window. To the right, a modern window is present, with a sashed window in a plain stone surround above it. At cellar level, there is a doorway with plain reveals.
Local climate
St Michael's Cottage and Hillcroft sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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