Harborough Hill House and Attached Stables and Coach House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Harborough Hill House and Attached Stables and Coach House
- WRENN ID
- carved-frieze-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Harborough Hill House and Attached Stables and Coach House, Harringworth Road, Gretton, NN17 3DD
- OS grid reference
- SP 899 948
- Coordinates
- 52.54405, -0.67456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harborough Hill House, along with its attached stables and coach house, is a house dating from 1858. It is constructed from squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and features a Collyweston slate roof. The building has a double depth plan and stands two storeys high with an attic. The entrance front has a three-window range of 19th-century casements, including a similar window in the center, all set under gauged stone heads with keyblocks. A central gabled porch features an arch-headed opening with a panelled door. The house has a pair of gables with arch-headed attic windows, and a semi-circular merlon with a ball finial between them, which were likely reset from Kirby Hall. The ashlar gable parapets and kneelers, along with stone stacks rising from the central valley, add to its architectural detail. The datestone is located in the porch. The garden front to the left mirrors the entrance front with a similar three-window range, but includes a central blank arch at the ground floor, flanked by rusticated pilasters and spandrels, topped with a moulded cornice. The arms of the Earls of Winchelsea are displayed in the upper part of this arch. This feature, along with the merlon on the entrance front, were probably also reset from Kirby Hall. There is a 20th-century extension to the left. The former stables and coach house are attached to the extreme right of the front. Inside, there are some six-panelled doors and panelled window reveals. The house was built as the agents' house for the Kirby Hall estate.
Local climate
Harborough Hill House and Attached Stables and Coach House 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- 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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