Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. Cottage.
Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-moulding-vetch
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Hill Cottage, Herne Street, Herne and Broomfield
- OS grid reference
- TR 183 658
- Coordinates
- 51.34974, 1.13393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on Herne Street in Herne. It is two storeys high, with the ground floor constructed of red brick and the first floor now covered in roughcast. The roof is tiled and features a half-hipped design on one side. The cottage has two windows: one is a sash window with intact glazing bars, while the other is an altered casement window. There is a doorcase with a flat hood supported by brackets, and access to the cottage is via three steps leading to the street. Hill Cottage is part of a group of buildings that includes Church View, Leo Cottage, The Risings, and No 4 Hill Cottages, along with Horninglow Cottage, Street House, Forge Cottage, Street Cottage, and Chapel Cottage.
Local climate
Hill Cottage 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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