Hilltop Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1986. Farmhouse.
Hilltop Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-pediment-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hilltop Cottage, Coneysthorpe to Malton Road, Appleton-Le-Street with Easthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SE 733 716
- Coordinates
- 54.13561, -0.8796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hilltop Cottage is a farmhouse, now a house, located in Easthorpe, originally shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Easthorpe Farm. It dates from the mid to late 18th century and has undergone some alterations and extensions in the 20th century. The building is constructed of dressed sandstone, with the upper half of the front and left gable wall rendered. It features a pantile roof with a rebuilt brick stack.
The original layout was a two-cell, direct-entry plan with opposed doors, and it has a forge and barn attached to the right. The front is two stories high with three windows, and there is a single-storey extension set back to the left. To the right of the centre, there is a disused board house door, a board smithy door, and a part-slatted window, all beneath a continuous painted timber lintel. The extension has a 20th-century board door.
On the ground floor, the windows include a three-light, large-pane casement to the left of a two-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash. The first floor has a two-light, small-pane horizontal-sliding sash to the left, a small-pane casement in the centre, and a fixed light to the right. All openings have timber lintels. The left gable features a coped gable and a shaped kneeler, with a stack positioned at the centre left. At the rear, there is an outshut under a catslide roof, and a forge stack is located at the base of the roof to the left of the outshut.
Inside, the ground-floor room to the left has a roughly chamfered bressummer over the fireplace, and the brick forge remains intact in the smithy.
Local climate
Hilltop Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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