The Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1983. Hall. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- riven-vault-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1983
- Type
- Hall
- Address
- The Old Hall, Keyston Road, Covington, PE28 0RR
- OS grid reference
- TL 056 707
- Coordinates
- 52.32511, -0.45065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Hall is a 17th-century manor house hall, dated 1659 on a carved stone at the base of the chimney stack. It is a T-shaped building, with a lobby entry and a brick outshut rebuilt in the 19th century to two storeys. The building is two storeys high with attics. It is constructed of dressed limestone with a red brick rear wing. The roofs are plain tiled, with ashlar copings to the parapets and moulded kneelers. The large ridge stack is of ashlar, incorporating three shafts and a common moulded entablature. There are two hipped dormer windows with iron lattice casements. The first floor has three 19th-century replacement cross-framed windows with iron casements, retaining original chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The ground floor has three similar windows of two and three lights. A 18th-century door with six raised and fielded panels is set within a modern porch.
Inside, there are two large inglenook hearths with remains of a baking oven. There is early 18th-century pine panelling and a chimney piece in the hall, with some reset panels in the parlour. Similar panelling is found in two rooms of the wing, alongside two 19th-century staircases. The original butt purlin roofs are present in both the main hall and the wing.
Local climate
The Old Hall 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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