Nos 40 and 41 (Hill Cottage) Including Forecourt Retaining Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Cottage.
Nos 40 and 41 (Hill Cottage) Including Forecourt Retaining Wall
- WRENN ID
- errant-bastion-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Nos 40 and 41 (Hill Cottage) Including Forecourt Retaining Wall, Clovelly
- OS grid reference
- SS 317 248
- Coordinates
- 50.99844, -4.39849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 40 and 41, known as Hill Cottage, is a cottage that likely dates from the mid-19th century. The building is rendered and whitewashed, featuring a nipped slate roof with a clay ridge. It has a ridge stack on the left and two stacks at the rear with brick shafts on projecting rubble chimney breasts. The plan consists of a single room depth with a central entrance hall and flanking rooms.
The main facade is two storeys high, with a layout of one window on the left and three windows to the right. On the first floor, there is a 6-pane sash window to the extreme left, while the ground floor has two 16-pane sash windows with exposed sash boxes and three multi-paned C19 2-light casements. The central door opening is flanked by three windows and features a plank door with a gabled hood. There is an additional door opening to the extreme left, which is also a C19 plank door with a slated hood. The left corner of the building is canted.
The left return has a projecting 6-pane C19 shop window with a hipped slate roof. The right return has a slated whitewashed rubble lean-to, which includes a 2-light casement with glazing bars on the ground floor and a 4-light casement with lapped panes on the first floor. There is a plank doorway with a flight of rubble steps leading up, and an ornamental lamp on a scrolly bracket. The forecourt of the cottage features a pitched stone pavement and a high rubble retaining wall.
Local climate
Nos 40 and 41 (Hill Cottage) Including Forecourt Retaining Wall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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 0.3°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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