Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-rafter-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hill Cottage, 45, Fowlmere Road, Heydon
- OS grid reference
- TL 430 403
- Coordinates
- 52.04342, 0.08495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. It features a ridge stack made of plastered brick and an end stack on the west side. The cottage has one storey and an attic. On the ground floor, there are three windows, including two casements with large leaded lights. The entrance is a 20th-century glazed, boarded door.
Local climate
Hill Cottage 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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