Hillcrest is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Cottage.

Hillcrest

WRENN ID
waiting-landing-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Hillcrest, Morval
OS grid reference
SX 259 573
Coordinates
50.38994, -4.44995
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hillcrest is a cottage dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with slate hanging on the right-hand gable end and features a slate roof with gable ends and deep overhanging eaves. There is a rendered stone rubble chimney stack, likely serving the parlour on the left-hand gable end, and a projecting stone rubble kitchen stack on the right-hand gable end. The cottage has a two-room layout with a central cross passage, with the kitchen located on the right and a 20th-century one-room extension at the rear.

The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical two-window front, with the original 19th-century diamond-leaded glazing bars still intact. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century two-light casements set beneath dressed stone segmental arches. A 19th-century gabled stone rubble open porch with a slate roof, shaped bargeboards, and an original triangular-headed plank door in a dressed stone arch adds to its character. The first floor features 19th-century two-light casements in gabled half-dormers. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Hillcrest sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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