Hill Cottage Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. House, cottage.
Hill Cottage Hill House
- WRENN ID
- white-marble-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Hill Cottage Hill House, Westward
- OS grid reference
- NY 324 489
- Coordinates
- 54.83075, -3.05366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill House and Hill Cottage are a house and cottage dating from the early 19th century. They are constructed from coursed hammer-dressed mixed red and yellow sandstone, featuring eaves modillions and painted V-jointed quoins. The roofs are made of graduated greenslate, with both stone and rebuilt brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, while Hill Cottage has a single bay under a common roof. Hill House features a top-glazed panelled door set in a pilastered surround beneath a dentilled cornice, along with sash windows that have glazing bars, all framed in painted stone surrounds. Hill Cottage has a panelled door in a painted stone surround under a cornice, with similar windows.
Local climate
Hill Cottage Hill House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
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