Kingcroft is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Kingcroft
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-moat-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kingcroft, 87, High Street, Earith, PE28 3PN
- OS grid reference
- TL 383 748
- Coordinates
- 52.35392, 0.03002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingcroft, located at 87 Earith High Street, is a farmhouse dating from 1812, as indicated on the key block. It has an L-shaped plan and is two storeys tall with an attic, featuring a single-storey kitchen range on the left side. The building is constructed of gault brick and has a modern tile mansard roof with parapet gables and end stacks.
The façade includes three flat-roofed dormer windows with horizontal sliding sashes. On the first floor, there are two hung sash windows with margin glazing bars set in segmental arches, which flank a central semi-circular arched sash window that has a similar arched head and key block. The ground floor features two hung sash windows with margin glazing bars in cambered and gauged brick arches, flanking a central door. The doorcase is adorned with fluted pilasters, a plain entablature, and a projecting cornice, and the door itself is a four-panelled design with flush panelled reveals.
There is a parlour extension that was added in 1894, as noted on the rainwater head. Inside, the property boasts an open-string staircase with a carved newel post from 1894, original six-panelled and two-panelled doors, and a small hand basin located in a niche beside the garden door.
Local climate
Kingcroft sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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