Fox Cottage and attached outbuilding to east is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1972. Lodge house, house.
Fox Cottage and attached outbuilding to east
- WRENN ID
- moated-screen-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1972
- Type
- Lodge house, house
- Address
- Fox Cottage and attached outbuilding to east, Irchester Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 939 663
- Coordinates
- 52.28693, -0.6247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Cottage, originally a lodge house, dates from 1866 but shows signs of an earlier structure. It features regular coursed limestone and ironstone with brick dressings and a plain-tile roof. The building has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with a two-window range of casements that have cast-iron lattice glazing bars beneath shallow brick arches. The central gable projection displays a blank arch supported by corbelled brackets and features a central armorial device. To the left, there is a lean-to with a blocked opening that has a pointed head. Brick stacks are located at both ends, and the right gable includes a datestone on a shield with an animal's head above it. Evidence of an earlier single-storey structure can be seen in the left gable. Attached to the left is a single-storey outbuilding, designed in a similar style with a two-window range, connected by a brick arch with stone corbels that now forms a 20th-century porch.
Local climate
Fox Cottage and attached outbuilding to east sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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