Bijou Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1987. House.
Bijou Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-gallery-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bijou Cottage, 14, Robbs Lane, Lowick
- OS grid reference
- SP 977 807
- Coordinates
- 52.41599, -0.56464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bijou Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of regularly coursed limestone and features a pantile roof. The building has a one-unit plan and is a single storey with an attic. The front has a one-window range with a casement window that includes glazing bars, positioned under a wooden lintel. To the left, there is a plank door, also under a wooden lintel. At the end of the building, there is a brick and stone stack. The left gable has two similar casement windows. A 20th-century lean-to has been added to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bijou Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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