Hill Crest is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. Cottage.
Hill Crest
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-glass-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hill Crest, Lower Street, Dittisham
- OS grid reference
- SX 860 550
- Coordinates
- 50.38447, -3.60384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Crest is a cottage, probably from the 18th century, that was extended in the late 20th century. It is built of roughcast stone rubble and features a thatched roof with a gabled end, where the eaves are eyebrowed over the first-floor windows. The right-hand gable end has a stack with a rebuilt red brick shaft. The cottage has a two-room plan with a central entrance, and each room is heated from a gable end stack located in the right-hand corner.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor. The windows are two-light casements with glazing bars, likely from the 19th century, but they may be in original frames. There is a small fixed-light four-pane window from the early 19th century to the right on the ground floor. The doorway, located to the left of centre, features a glazed and panelled door from the early 20th century, along with a slated canopy.
On the right end, there is a late 19th-century lean-to outbuilding (garage) at a lower level, and behind it, a late 20th-century flat-roof extension. The rear elevation was not inspected. The interior was also not inspected, but it may still have some original 18th or 19th-century joinery, and the plan may remain unaltered.
Local climate
Hill Crest receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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