Fairykytes (Havering Art Centre) is a Grade II listed building in the Havering local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1955. Art centre, house. 3 related planning applications.
Fairykytes (Havering Art Centre)
- WRENN ID
- waning-gateway-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Havering
- Constituency
- Hornchurch and Upminster MP: Julia Lopez (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1955
- Type
- Art centre, house
- Address
- Fairykytes (Havering Art Centre), Billet Lane, RM11 1AX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 538 874
- Coordinates
- 51.56502, 0.21823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairkytes, also known as Havering Art Centre, is a mid-18th century house that was refronted in the 19th century and has undergone considerable later additions. The building is two stories tall, constructed of red brick with a slated gambrel roof. The original house features five bays with recessed square-headed sash windows, a raised band course between the ground and first floors, a moulded stucco cornice, and a rendered parapet with stone coping. It also has three flat-topped dormers and a recent neo-Georgian glazed porch. The ends of the building have stacks with ornamental 19th-century chimney pots.
To the south, there is a two-bay extension that continues the fenestration of the main block and includes a two-story canted bay on the south wall. There is an early 19th-century rear addition that is two stories tall, rendered, and has a shallow-pitched slated roof with wide eaves supported by thin paired brackets. Inside, the building features a staircase with mid-18th-century characteristics, including a moulded rail and turned balusters, along with some remaining panelling.
Local climate
Fairykytes (Havering Art Centre) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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