Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-plaster-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hill Cottage, 103, High Street, Yelling, PE19 6SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 259 626
- Coordinates
- 52.24793, -0.15646
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Cottage is likely a 16th-century cottage, possibly built on an earlier structure, constructed with a timber frame and plaster. It was later altered in the late 17th century, evidenced by the addition of chimney stacks. The cottage has a two-unit plan and a single storey with an attic. It has a thatched roof, half-hipped towards the road, with two ridge stacks. The front elevation features a boarded door and a single horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars, along with a small fixed light window in the upper room. The interior includes a sealed inglenook hearth, a sealed three-light mullioned window in the east wall, and a section of the original door head beside a boxed stair. A tie beam connects to an open truss, and the roof retains original rafters with curved wind braces above each bay of the side purlin.
Local climate
Hill Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 0.4°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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