Stoneheaps is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1952. A C17 House.
Stoneheaps
- WRENN ID
- low-lintel-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stoneheaps, Kimpton Bottom
- OS grid reference
- TL 165 179
- Coordinates
- 51.84809, -0.30983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stoneheaps is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century. It features a front range with a short cross wing added to the eastern side in the later 17th century. The building has a timber frame, with a ground floor made of red brick from the 18th to 19th centuries, and the upper floor is plastered. It has a plain tile roof and underwent extensive restoration in the late 1920s.
The south elevation has three slightly projecting bays, each with gables that jet out on carved consoles, showcasing original moulded bargeboards and bressumers. The left two gables feature two rows of dentils, while the right gable has a dentilled bressumer. The upper floor windows are four-light with original moulded mullions, and there is a five-light window above a modern door. The end elevations have weatherboarded gables that jet out on single carved consoles, with two-light mullioned windows beneath them. The rear elevation has restored two-light casements. The rear wing displays exposed framing, brick infill, and a clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
Stoneheaps 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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