Hilltop Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1990. Cottage.
Hilltop Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-nave-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hilltop Cottage, Shilton
- OS grid reference
- SP 265 084
- Coordinates
- 51.77395, -1.61623
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hilltop Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1700 that has been restored. It is built from coursed and dressed rubble with chamfered quoins and features a Cotswold stone roof. The cottage has 20th-century rubble chimneys at both gable ends. It stands two storeys high with a gable-lit attic and has two windows, which are 20th-century leaded casements with wooden lintels. The central doorway is topped with a 20th-century hood. Inside, there is a newel stair that leads from the first floor on the south side.
Local climate
Hilltop Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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