Hill Top is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. House.
Hill Top
- WRENN ID
- over-banister-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Top, Little Strickland
- OS grid reference
- NY 555 201
- Coordinates
- 54.57475, -2.68976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Top is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It features cement rendered walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which includes cement rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. The central entrance consists of a 20th-century plank door set within a painted stone surround. To the left, there is a three-light flat stone-mullioned window, while to the right, there is a two-light flat stone-mullioned window. At the rear, there is a contemporary outshut.
Local climate
Hill Top sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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