Sidney Hill Cottage Homes and Attached Gatepiers, Walls and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1987. Almshouses. 6 related planning applications.
Sidney Hill Cottage Homes and Attached Gatepiers, Walls and Gates
- WRENN ID
- spare-crypt-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1987
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Sidney Hill Cottage Homes and Attached Gatepiers, Walls and Gates, Front Street, Churchill, BS25 5NE
- OS grid reference
- ST 440 598
- Coordinates
- 51.33524, -2.80466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sidney Hill Cottage Homes, built in 1907, are Wesleyan almshouses designed by Silcock and Reay. The cottages are constructed of brick with some stone copings and feature plain tile roofs, with wrought iron gates. The layout is U-shaped, consisting of 12 cottages in the Arts and Crafts Vernacular style, each with one storey and attics. The windows are three-light wooden casements with small leaded panes, and those in the attic are located under gables. The doorways are Tudor-arched, with plank doors and flat hoods supported by carved consoles. Tall brick stacks rise from the buildings, and there is an open hexagonal wooden cupola above the central entrance archway. The north front displays the Hill family crest above the entrance arch.
The boundary walls are made of brick with a limestone mid-course and stone copings, standing 2 metres high. Ornamental stone vases are placed at intervals on the piers, which include central gatepiers at the north entrance that are 2.5 metres high with renewed ball finials. The entrance features two-leaf wrought iron gates with a decorative overthrow, along with single leaf gates at the east and west corners, and additional central two-leaf gates on the south boundary wall, which have pineapple finials on the piers. The almshouses were funded by Sidney Hill of Langford House and were inspired by the painting "Harbour of Refuge" created in 1872 by Frederick Walker, which is now housed in the Tate Gallery.
Local climate
Sidney Hill Cottage Homes and Attached Gatepiers, Walls and Gates receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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