Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1983. Cottage.
Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-quoin-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hill Cottage, the Green, Hockham
- OS grid reference
- TL 953 925
- Coordinates
- 52.49615, 0.87569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Cottage is a late 17th century cottage constructed of brick, flint, and rendered clay lump, topped with a thatched roof. The building is one storey high, featuring a door located to the right of the centre and three renewed casement windows. The gabled roof is hipped to the north-west, and there is a ridge stack positioned to the left.
Local climate
Hill 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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