Hill Cottages the Risings is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.
Hill Cottages the Risings
- WRENN ID
- patient-fireplace-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1976
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Hill Cottages the Risings, Herne Street, Herne and Broomfield, CT6 7HW
- OS grid reference
- TR 183 658
- Coordinates
- 51.34989, 1.13378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Cottages, located at The Risings No 4 in Herne, is an early 19th-century building. It is two storeys high and constructed of brown brick, topped with an old tiled roof. The building features three sash windows, with intact glazing bars on "The Risings" and verticals only on No 4 Hill Cottages. There is a modern three-light bow window on the ground floor of The Risings. The entrance to The Risings includes a doorcase with a pedimented wooden hood supported by brackets, along with a passage entrance that has a cambered doorcase. No 4 Hill Cottages has a doorcase with a cornice on brackets and a four-panelled door, accessed by three steps leading to the street. Hill Cottages and The Risings are part of a group that includes Church View, Leo Cottage, Horninglow Cottage, Hill Cottage, Street House, Forge Cottage, Street Cottage, and Chapel Cottage.
Local climate
Hill Cottages the Risings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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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