Brill's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. House.
Brill's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-passage-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner MP: David Simmonds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brill's Cottage, Breakspear Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 083 887
- Coordinates
- 51.58727, -0.43729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brill's Cottage is an early 16th century small house located on the south side of Breakspear Road in Ruislip Common. The building is two storeys high and has three and a half bays, with the short bay positioned second from the right. It features exposed stout square framing with arch braces and plaster filling. The roof is high-pitched and tiled, with an old brick chimney situated over the right bay. The cottage has small modern casement windows. Inside, there is much exposed timber, including a side purlin roof with wind braces. Smoke blackening can be seen on the roof timbers of the west bay only. The narrow bay to the east may have originally served as a passage but now contains a chimney.
Local climate
Brill's 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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