Hills Corner is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 2000. Cottage.
Hills Corner
- WRENN ID
- stark-minaret-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hills Corner, Godshill
- OS grid reference
- SU 177 144
- Coordinates
- 50.92901, -1.74929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hills Corner is a cottage built in the 18th century, with extensions added in the late 19th or early 20th century. It features roughcast cob walls and a straw thatched roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. The cottage has a gable-end stack with a short brick chimney.
The layout consists of a two-room plan, where the larger room on the left is heated by the gable-end stack and has a central doorway for entry. The smaller room on the right is unheated. A single-storey outshut was added to the right end during the late 19th or early 20th century.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an almost symmetrical west front with two windows. The windows are small 19th-century two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. The central doorway features a plank door and a later open timber porch. There is an internal stack on the left gable end and a single-storey lean-to outshut on the right end.
Inside, the ground floor rooms have axial beams and exposed joists. The north room includes a fireplace with a shelf supported by brackets, along with cupboards on either side that have plank doors. A staircase at the rear rises from the north room and has a plain balustrade at the top, with stick balusters and a square newel post. The doors are made of planks. The attic is ceiled and has a matchboard partition, but the roof structure is not accessible.
Local climate
Hills Corner receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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