The Lea Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1959. Farmhouse.
The Lea Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silver-ledge-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1959
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Lea Farmhouse, Kimbolton
- OS grid reference
- SO 538 622
- Coordinates
- 52.25643, -2.67788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lea Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th or 17th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century. It features a refacing of sandstone rubble on a timber-framed structure, topped with a Welsh slate roof and brick chimney stacks. The building has a rectangular plan and includes a gable-end stack with a central star plan shaft, flanked by rebuilt diagonal shafts and an axial stack. The entrance is located on the south-west front.
The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics. The south-west front has a lean-to kitchen addition with a catslide roof that extends forward to the left. To the right of this addition is a 2-light ovolo moulded mullioned window. The main house to the right has a 5-light 19th-century casement window on the left and a similar 2-light window on the right. There is also a projecting 19th-century porch with a part-glazed door, which obscures an earlier battened and studded door.
At the rear of the house, several ovolo moulded mullioned windows remain, including a 3-light and a 4-light cross-mullioned window on the left, a partly blocked 3-light window, and another 3-light window at mezzanine level on the right. On the ground floor, there is a 5-light window, a 4-light window, and a 3-light window to the left of a square-headed doorway with a pierced ledged door, along with 2-light casement windows in the later addition to the right. Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered ceiling beams and a section of 17th-century panelling in the main room.
Local climate
The Lea Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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