Hill Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. A Post-medieval Cottages.
Hill Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- solitary-cobble-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Cottages
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Hill Farm Cottages, the Street, Lindsey
- OS grid reference
- TL 977 451
- Coordinates
- 52.06903, 0.8844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farm Cottages is a timber-framed and plastered building with a thatched roof, likely dating from the 17th to 18th century. At the east end, there is an early 19th-century addition featuring a plaque that states the date 1815. This addition is also timber-framed and plastered, but it has a pantiled roof. The main block of the cottages is one storey with attics, which includes small casement windows and two dormers. The addition is two storeys high and has a two-window range on the east front, featuring double-hung sashes with glazing bars.
Local climate
Hill Farm Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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 0.3°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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