Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Cottage.

Hill Cottage

WRENN ID
vacant-garret-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 October 1977
Type
Cottage
Address
Hill Cottage, St Fagans, St. Fagans
OS grid reference
ST 120 771
Coordinates
51.48635, -3.26742
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Hill Cottage is an estate cottage built with stone walling and colourwashed cladding, topped with a Welsh slate gabled roof featuring a central stone stack. The front elevation is two storeys high and consists of two bays with a central door bay. It has three-light casement windows, with plain centre lights and outer lights that have lattice glazing. The entrance is marked by an arched brick porch, which has a slate gabled roof and a ledged door.

There was once a lamp bracket, decorated with scrolls and designed to hold a downward tapering quadrangular lamp with peaked cresting, attached to the western corner of the front wall. Although the lamp is no longer present, the scar where it was fixed remains. The west gable end features a 2-light window above a small canted bay and has bargeboards at the gable. Additionally, there is a small lean-to structure against the eastern return wall, which also has a slate gabled roof. The rear elevation was not seen during the resurvey. The interior was not inspected at the time of the resurvey.

Local climate

Hill Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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