Hill Side is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Hill Side
- WRENN ID
- guardian-beam-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hill Side, 23, Lode Hill, Downton, SP5 3PW
- OS grid reference
- SU 183 215
- Coordinates
- 50.99291, -1.74011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century detached cottage located on the north side of Lode Hill, near Downton. The cottage has a timber frame and a half-hipped thatched roof, with an axial brick stack. It presents a gable end to the road and is two bays wide. The structure is single-storey with an attic. There is one window on the ground floor and one window to the first floor. A 20th-century porch sits on the gable end, and a 2-light casement window is visible to the right. The left return has a 20th-century glazed porch and a 2-light casement window. An eyebrow dormer with a 2-light casement window is also present on the left return. The right return has no windows. Inside, the cottage features chamfered beams with bar and ogee stops, an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel, and exposed chamfered joists with step and runout stops.
Local climate
Hill Side receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 8 transactions since 1996
- 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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