Hilldene Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Hilldene Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-joist-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Hilldene Cottage, High Street, Forrabury and Minster, PL35 0BD
- OS grid reference
- SX 099 905
- Coordinates
- 50.68353, -4.69105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hilldene Cottage is a house and shop, originally built around the middle of the 18th century. It is situated on the west side of High Street in Boscastle. The construction is of rendered and painted slate-stone rubble, with a bitumen-coated rag slate roof, gabled ends, and a lean-to rag slate roof over a single-story extension on the front left. A slate roof with a gable end sits on the rear wing. A stone rubble stack with a rendered shaft is visible on the left-hand gable end.
The house may have originally had a single-room layout, with a stack on the higher left-hand gable end for heating. The rear wing, initially likely a lean-to outshot, was remodelled in the 19th century and partly rebuilt in the 20th. A single-story outshot was added to the front left around the middle of the 19th century.
The front façade is asymmetrical, featuring a two-window arrangement. A six-pane window and an eight-pane horned sash are located in the lean-to outshot on the left. A four-panel door, with glazing, is situated on the right, flanked by two six-pane windows. The first floor has a four-pane sash window in a gabled half-dormer on the left and a four-pane sash window to the right. The interior of the property has not been inspected.
Hilldene Cottage contributes to the picturesque group of buildings along High Street in Boscastle.
Local climate
Hilldene Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 11 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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