The Commons is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. A Post-Medieval House.
The Commons
- WRENN ID
- tattered-flint-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- The Commons, Luton Road, Kimpton
- OS grid reference
- TL 167 183
- Coordinates
- 51.8515, -0.30707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Commons is a house dating from the 17th century, featuring a timber frame and possibly an earlier core located behind a cross wing on the south side. The house has red brick infill and includes a timbered and plastered extension added around 1970 on the north side. It has plain and machine tile roofs and stands two storeys high with attics. The cross wing is two bays wide and has two pairs of exposed purlins and two glazing bar casements. There is a smaller range behind the cross wing that is one storey high with attics. A large red brick chimney stack is located at the junction of the two sections, featuring two square shafts and a plastered gable attached on the north side with casement dormers. An 18th-century extension to the east has brick and plaster infill along with a weatherboarded gable end.
Local climate
The Commons 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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