Gourmets Corner Kington Book Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1993. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Gourmets Corner Kington Book Shop
- WRENN ID
- second-landing-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1993
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Gourmets Corner Kington Book Shop, 26, High Street, HR5 3AX
- OS grid reference
- SO 296 566
- Coordinates
- 52.2034, -3.03102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gourmets Corner (number 25) and Kington Book Shop (number 26) are a house, now shops and a dwelling, dating from the 18th century. The building is rendered with stucco and has a Welsh slate roof. It is three storeys high and has a two-window front. The windows are late 19th-century 2/2 sash windows within broad beaded casings, with a storeyband detail. The right-hand side has an early 20th-century shopfront with a central part-glazed panelled door, flanked by windows with moulded glazing bars, all under a moulded wooden hood. To the left is a 20th-century shopfront incorporating a recessed part-glazed panelled door and a plate-glass window, with coloured leaded clerestory lights above. The rear of the building features 3/3 sash windows. A two-storey wing is visible, featuring a rubble end stack with a brick chimney.
Local climate
Gourmets Corner Kington Book Shop receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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