Priory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
Priory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-remnant-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Priory Cottage, Church Street, Wellingborough, NN8 4PA
- OS grid reference
- SP 891 679
- Coordinates
- 52.30251, -0.69468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Cottage is a house that has been converted into two dwellings. It features a datestone from 1608 and includes 19th-century additions. The building is constructed from squared coursed ironstone and has 20th-century plain-tile and slate roofs. Originally, it likely had a three-unit plan and is two storeys high with an attic. The front has a four-window range with narrow, three-storey projecting gables on both the left and right sides. There are three-light stone mullion windows and one large two-light stone-mullion window in the centre of the ground floor. Each gable has a 20th-century door beneath a wooden lintel. The gables have ashlar parapets and kneelers, and there is a central 20th-century roof dormer along with brick stacks at the ridge.
To the left, there is a 19th-century one-bay extension with a projecting cross wing that has two 19th-century two-light stone-mullion windows. The rear elevation facing Church Street also has a four-window range, featuring sash, casement, and three-light stone-mullion windows. There is a six-panelled part-glazed door under a wooden lintel on the left and a 20th-century door on the right. A stack at the eaves rises from an irregular gable, which includes the datestone, and the centre of the main front has a partially legible inscribed slate tablet. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is reported to contain a wooden spiral stair. The building was originally believed to be the schoolmaster's house and dormitories for the adjacent Grammar School, which is now the Church Hall.
Local climate
Priory 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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 — 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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