Hillcrest Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Hillcrest Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-flue-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hillcrest Cottage, Newport Road, Moulsoe, MK16 0HW
- OS grid reference
- SP 905 417
- Coordinates
- 52.06659, -0.68116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillcrest Cottage, formerly known as Tudor Cottage, is a 17th-century cottage that has been altered. It features a timber frame with colourwashed brick infilling and a thatched roof, topped with a brick chimney. The central part of the cottage is two storeys high and includes one bay of casement windows, along with an additional window on the right side of the ground floor on the west side. There is a one-storey wing with a gable facing the road, which has a three-light window in the gable end. On the east side, there is a two-light casement window. At the northern end, there is a one-storey and attic wing that includes a door and one window on the ground floor. Additionally, there is a modern one-storey addition with a lean-to pantiled roof.
Local climate
Hillcrest Cottage 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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