Park Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1986. Cottage.
Park Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-lancet-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Park Hill Cottage, Horningsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 825 431
- Coordinates
- 51.18702, -2.2507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Hill Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of painted rubble stone with a tiled roof and brick stacks. The building is single storey with an attic and features two windows. There is a planked door located in a gabled porch to the left of the center, with two 2-light casements to the right and a 2-light casement to the left. The attic has two hipped dormers, one with a 3-light casement and the other with a 2-light casement.
On the right side, there is a 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement on the ground floor and a 2-light casement on the first floor. The rear of the cottage has a 20th-century door, with a 1-light casement on either side, a 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement to the left, and a 2-light casement to the right. An attached 20th-century extension is located on the left return. Inside, the cottage features chamfered beams with stepped stops and blocked open fireplaces. It is situated in an isolated position on Park Hill.
Local climate
Park Hill Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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