Kimbolton House is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Inn/house. 2 related planning applications.
Kimbolton House
- WRENN ID
- under-chamber-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Inn/house
- Address
- Kimbolton House, 9, High Street, PE28 0HB
- OS grid reference
- TL 099 677
- Coordinates
- 52.29666, -0.38911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kimbolton House is a Grade II listed building located on Kimbolton High Street. Originally, it consisted of two separate 17th century buildings with a central passageway, which were incorporated into an early 19th century inn. This inn is two storeys high and has an additional range known as 'The Sun' tap room to the south-west. In the mid-19th century, the street range was raised to three storeys, and the tap room became the service wing of the house. A billiard room was added to the north-west of the street range in the late 19th century.
The building features a combination of brick and timber-frame construction, rendered on the exterior. The street elevation is adorned with painted wooden trellis, divided into panels that frame the upper windows. It has a low pitched slate roof with deep boarded eaves, a pierced pelmet, and paired modillions. There are side stacks, and the building has six hung sash windows in moulded wooden frames with glazing bars on the first and second floors. The slightly projecting ground floor has five similar windows. To the right of the centre, there is a door with six raised and fielded panels set in an architraved doorcase, flanked by two attached Doric columns.
On the rear elevation of the main range, there are six hung sash windows set in round-headed arches. The former Sun Inn, which serves as the rear service wing to the south-west, is two storeys high, constructed of painted brick with a low pitched slate roof and an end stack to the south-west. It retains three original first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars. The interior includes 19th century chimney pieces, doors, and a staircase.
Local climate
Kimbolton House 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 applications
- 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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