The Retreat Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
The Retreat Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-cinder-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner MP: David Simmonds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Retreat Cottage, 28, Field End Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 108 884
- Coordinates
- 51.58428, -0.40197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat Cottage is a late 16th century, five-bay timber-framed barn, with the two western bays converted into a dwelling. It features an old tiled roof, and the south face displays framing filled partly with brick and partly with plaster. The structure includes stout timbers with large arch braces supporting the plates and ties, as well as queen post roof trusses. The central south bay, which was formerly the entrance, is now weatherboarded, while the two western bays form the cottage. The open central bay serves as the barn entrance, and there are lean-to projections on the eastern bays. The cottage part has small leaded casement windows.
Local climate
The Retreat 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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