Carey Hill is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House.
Carey Hill
- WRENN ID
- noble-portal-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Carey Hill, Church Lane, Kingston
- OS grid reference
- TL 345 554
- Coordinates
- 52.18053, -0.03309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carey Hill is a house dating from the 17th century, which was altered in the late 20th century. It is timber framed and rendered, with a tiled roof that is half hipped and features a red brick axial ridge stack. The building has a three-bay layout and a lobby entry plan, with a later lean-to outshut at the rear. It stands two storeys high with an attic. The first floor has three modern casement windows, while the ground floor has two bow windows and a doorway leading to the lobby. The house is included for its group value.
Local climate
Carey Hill 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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 2002
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