Flying Fox is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House, former inn.
Flying Fox
- WRENN ID
- deep-balcony-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House, former inn
- Address
- Flying Fox, 25, Church Lane, Kimpton
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 185
- Coordinates
- 51.85316, -0.29293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Flying Fox is a house that was formerly an inn. It has a timber frame at the rear dating from the 17th century, while the front is from the later 18th century and sits over a deep cellar. The building features a 19th-century slate hipped roof and sash windows, with some areas of chequered red brick. It has a square plan and is two storeys high, with two segmental-headed windows on the ground floor. There is a central door framed in 18th-century oak. Inside, there is a large 18th-century inglenook fireplace and some exposed 17th-century framing.
Local climate
Flying Fox sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
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