Avington Croft Cottage Holcombe House is a Grade II listed building in the Enfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Terraced houses. 3 related planning applications.
Avington Croft Cottage Holcombe House
- WRENN ID
- floating-gravel-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Enfield
- Constituency
- Southgate and Wood Green MP: Bambos Charalambous (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- Avington Croft Cottage Holcombe House, 113, High Street N14, N14 6BP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 296 939
- Coordinates
- 51.6298, -0.12833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises three houses, Avington Croft Cottage (No. 111), Holcombe House (No. 113), and No. 115, built in the 18th century as a symmetrical composition of stock brick. The central block, Holcombe House, is three storeys high with three windows, while the flanking side blocks, Avington Croft Cottage and No. 115, are two storeys high, also with three windows each. Each house has a parapet front and a hipped roof – No. 111 retains old pantiles, No. 113 has modern pantiles, and No. 115 has flat modern tiles. The sash windows have glazing bars and are set within gauged flat brick arches. Each entrance features a reeded doorcase with a cornice hood. Nos. 107 to 117 (odd) form a group.
Local climate
Avington Croft Cottage Holcombe 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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