The Pillared Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1993. Cottage.
The Pillared Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-window-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Pillared Cottage, Main Street, Witham on the Hill
- OS grid reference
- TF 053 163
- Coordinates
- 52.73474, -0.44189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pillared Cottage is a former estate cottage, now a house, built around 1905, likely by architect A N Prentice. The structure features coursed and banded limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and has plain tiled half-nipped roofs, one with a moulded stone stack and another with a brick stack. The building is U-shaped and two stories tall.
The entrance front has a recessed center with a central doorway, which is sheltered by a plain stone pillared porch. This is flanked by two single 2-light casement windows. To the right, there is a projecting single-storey wing that contains a single 3-light mullion window. The left wing projects two stories and features a double 2-light mullion window, with a single 3-light, segment-headed casement above it, which has a rubble wedge lintel and an ashlar keystone.
On the left return, there is a single canted bay window with 3-light mullions, and to the left, a projecting pillared verandah supported by three stone pillars. The main roof sweeps down to cover this feature, which includes a 4-centred arched doorway and a small casement. This cottage was almost certainly designed to accommodate the estate's gamekeeper or dairyman.
Local climate
The Pillared Cottage 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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