11, Desborough Road is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
11, Desborough Road
- WRENN ID
- moated-rampart-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- 11, Desborough Road, Rothwell, NN14 6JG
- OS grid reference
- SP 813 813
- Coordinates
- 52.42375, -0.80511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, later adapted as a house, dating to 1631. It was extensively refenestrated in the 18th century, with a further wing added in 1849. The building is constructed of ironstone with limestone dressings, and has Welsh slate roofs. It has a plinth and coped gables, with two 19th-century rendered brick valley stacks. The original design was a three-bay, two-story building with a double-range plan.
The south front features a central gabled porch with quoins, a chamfered flat-headed doorway with a keystone, and a coped gable with a finial. A datestone inscribed '1631' is set within the gable. There are two 10/10 sash windows either side of the porch, and three smaller 6/6 sashes above, all with keystoned flat heads. The east gable has a full-height glazing bar sash to the left, a similar smaller sash and a smaller leaded casement to the right. Above, the gable contains a glazing bar sash and a three-light leaded casement, both with keystoned flat arches. Datestones inscribed '1849' are positioned in the peaks of both gables.
The west double gable has a 19th-century three-light mullioned and transomed casement with a keystoned segmental head to the left. To the right, a 19th-century glazing bar sash is present, and above are two similar sashes, all with keystoned flat heads. The rear elevation features a 20th-century lean-to porch, flanked to the left by a 20th-century casement and a two-light iron-framed leaded casement. Above, there are two 19th-century plain sashes.
Local climate
11, Desborough Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 8 transactions since 1996
- 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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