Kings Hatch is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Cottage.
Kings Hatch
- WRENN ID
- secret-wicket-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kings Hatch, 48, High Street, Horningsea
- OS grid reference
- TL 493 625
- Coordinates
- 52.24049, 0.18553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Hatch is a cottage dating from the 17th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and painted brick. The roof is made of long straw thatch and is half-hipped to the west. There is a local brick ridge stack with grouped diagonal shafts. The cottage has one storey and an attic, arranged in a three-unit plan. The facade includes two dormer windows, two modern three-light casement windows, and one small recessed window with segmental arches. The entrance has a panelled door.
Local climate
Kings Hatch sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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