Hillcrest Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Thurrock local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1976. House.
Hillcrest Cottages
- WRENN ID
- swift-step-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thurrock
- Constituency
- South Basildon and East Thurrock MP: James McMurdock (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hillcrest Cottages, 1 and 2, Wharf Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 718 838
- Coordinates
- 51.52737, 0.47565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillcrest Cottages, located on Wharf Road, is a late 16th century house that features a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building stands two storeys high and consists of two bays, with an additional bay added in the 17th century. It has a rectangular double range plan and a three-window range, although the windows have been replaced with modern casements. A red brick chimney stack is present. Inside, much of the original timber frame remains intact.
Local climate
Hillcrest Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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