Hill Side is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage.

Hill Side

WRENN ID
strange-basalt-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Cottage
Address
Hill Side, Roborough
OS grid reference
SS 576 170
Coordinates
50.93558, -4.02733
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Side is a cottage that likely dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations and expansions made in the mid to late 19th century, along with a minor addition in the early 20th century. The building is rendered, probably over cob and stone rubble, and features a gable-ended wheatstraw thatched roof, with a higher gable-ended Welsh-slate roof on the addition. There is a rendered stone end stack on the right with a red brick top stage, and a brick axial stack on the left. The late 19th-century porch is made of painted brick and has a slate roof, while the early 20th-century addition is constructed of red brick with a monopitch slate roof.

The original plan, dating to around 1700, consists of a two-room central-entrance layout with external end stacks, facing south. In the mid to late 19th century, a one-room plan block was added to the left-hand end, along with the late 19th-century front porch. The cottage is two storeys high, and there is an early 20th-century one-storey outbuilding that adjoins at right angles to the left.

The exterior is roughly symmetrical with a three-window front featuring mid to late 19th-century six-pane sashes. The doorway is located between the first and second windows from the right and contains a late 19th-century or early 20th-century half-glazed door. The porch has a gabled roof with a keyed round archway and plain barge boards. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Hill Side sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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