North Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1978. House.
North Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-thatch-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- North Hill Cottage, Alkham Valley Road
- OS grid reference
- TR 257 423
- Coordinates
- 51.13577, 1.22514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Hill Cottage is a house dating from the 15th century, which was refaced in the 18th century. It features a timber frame with exposed plaster infill on the right side. The building is clad with flint, rubble, and red brick, with some areas painted. It has a plain tiled roof and is one storey high with a garret, topped by a central chimney stack. The gabled front has one wooden casement window on each floor, and there is a boarded door to the right. On the left side, there is a late 20th-century wooden outshot that includes two wooden casement windows and a half-glazed door.
Local climate
North Hill Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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