Hilltop Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1980. House.

Hilltop Cottages

WRENN ID
winding-bastion-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Staffordshire
Constituency
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 November 1980
Type
House
Address
Hilltop Cottages, Saredon
OS grid reference
SJ 951 084
Coordinates
52.67367, -2.07384
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hilltop Cottages is a house dating from the late 17th century, which was remodeled in the mid-19th century. It features timber framing that is faced in brown brick, with a plain tile roof and a central brick stack. The building has a baffle-entry plan and stands two storeys tall, with an eaves band. There are two windows with 20th-century casements that have segmental heads, and a central boarded door. The left-hand gable displays exposed framing with three square panels at the eaves, supported by straight braces. The roof truss includes two collars and vertical struts. At the rear, there is a 19th-century brick outshut.

Local climate

Hilltop Cottages receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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