4, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
4, The Square
- WRENN ID
- low-steel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, The Square, Kilkhampton, EX23 9QQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 252 114
- Coordinates
- 50.8757, -4.48451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house with a 17th-century core, expanded in the 19th century with a single-story addition and renovated in the 20th century. The house is built of colourwashed rendered cob with a slate roof, and has a large stone ridge stack with weatherings. The original core is a single depth, three rooms wide. The front has a two-story right-hand projection under a gabled slate roof and a single-story lean-to of slate construction, likely a former shop. The front features a door within the lean-to, protected by a sloping slate roof and a porch wall to the left of the lean-to. Most windows to the left of the front door have been replaced with casements.
The lean-to has a six-pane window to the left of the door, an eight-pane shop window to the right, and a two-pane window in the right return. Other windows are two-light casements with six panes per light. The interior retains a large fireplace in the right-hand ground floor room, and a room behind the stack is believed to have been a former dairy. Principal rafters are visible in some first floor rooms, and some original doorcases remain. The house retains a rear burgage plot.
Local climate
4, The Square sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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