Hill Top Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Cottage.
Hill Top Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-ledge-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hill Top Cottage, the Green, Askham, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 513 236
- Coordinates
- 54.60544, -2.75457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Top Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with an inscription over the entrance that reads "IW," although the rest of the inscription has been erased. The cottage features painted rubble walls set on a projecting boulder plinth, topped with a graduated greenslate roof and banded rendered chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and has two bays. The entrance includes an off-centre plank door within a 17th-century chamfered stone surround. To the right, there is a three-light flat stone-mullioned window, while the other windows are two-light but have had their mullions removed, except for a blocked single-light window located above the entrance. At the rear, there is a contemporary outshut that has a small window with a chamfered surround. The interior includes boxed beams, but it has been extensively altered otherwise.
Local climate
Hill Top Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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