Kingsland House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Kingsland House
- WRENN ID
- under-vault-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kingsland House, Kingsland Lane, Leavenheath, CO6 4PD
- OS grid reference
- TL 946 362
- Coordinates
- 51.99045, 0.83341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingsland House is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one house, dating from the early 18th century. The building features a timber frame with 20th-century render and lightly incised panels of guiloche ornament, topped with thatch. It has one and a half storeys, with an internal chimney stack that has a plain red brick shaft.
The exterior includes two gabled dormers, each with 20th-century two-light casement windows that have diamond leaded panes. On the ground floor, there are two sets of 20th-century two-light standard casement windows with diamond leaded panes, along with two fully glazed doors. One of these doors is located to the left of the chimney stack and is sheltered by an open gabled timber porch. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to extension with a 20th-century flat roof, which is concealed behind a hipped parapet roof.
Inside, there is one large room on the ground floor on each side of the chimney stack, although there is evidence that these rooms were once divided into two. Each corner of the building features a winding stair, and there is no access between the upper floors on either side of the stack. The upper floor is divided into a landing bedroom and a main bedroom on each side. The interior framing is fully exposed, showcasing long primary braces, bisected studs, and joists set on edge, with their ends resting on pegged clamps. The main beams have small chamfers, and the rafters are visible with no ridge. To the right of the stack, there is a truss framed for a half hip, suggesting that the building may have been extended to create two cottages, with a slightly older core indicated by a slight difference in ridge height to the left of the stack.
Local climate
Kingsland House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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