The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-garret-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner MP: David Simmonds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, 60, Ducks Hill Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 081 913
- Coordinates
- 51.61042, -0.43927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a late 18th century or early 19th century cottage that has one storey and an attic, with its gable end facing the road. It features a high-pitched tiled roof with bargeboards on the gables. The walls are made of flint rubble, accented with alternating bands of red brick. There is a small casement window in the gable end, and on the left side, the ground floor has windows that are topped with brick hoodmoulds. The front of the cottage includes a canted bay with a tiled roof on the ground floor. A gabled rustic porch is situated between the windows on the side. At the back, there is a projecting extension. The cottage has casement windows that are fitted with small diamond glazing bars.
Local climate
The 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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