Numbers 5 and 7 (Spring Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Numbers 5 and 7 (Spring Cottage)
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-solder-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 5 and 7 (Spring Cottage), Kings Meadow Lane, Higham Ferrers, NN10 8JE
- OS grid reference
- SP 958 691
- Coordinates
- 52.31181, -0.59483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 5 and 7, also known as Spring Cottage, is a house that has been converted into two dwellings. The datestone indicates it was built in 1728. The structure features squared coursed limestone and brick, which is now painted, topped with a 20th-century plain tile roof. It has an L-shaped plan and is two storeys high, with part of it having an attic.
The main front consists of two wings at right angles, with a two-window range on the right featuring 20th-century casements under wooden lintels, and a one-window range on the left with a casement that has glazing bars, also under a wooden lintel. There is a 20th-century door and lean-to porch at the intersection of the wings for No. 5, and a 19th-century door located at the center of the left wing. The front of the right wing was rebuilt in brick in the late 18th or early 19th century. A gabled roof dormer with a leaded casement is present, along with ashlar gable parapets and brick stacks at the ridge and ends. The gable at the end of the left wing features two casement windows with glazing bars under wooden lintels and a datestone in the apex.
Inside No. 5, there is an open fireplace with a bressumer in the room to the right, and a similar fireplace in the first-floor room above. A winder stair to the right of the fireplace leads up to the attic. The ceiling beams are chamfered, and the roof structure includes butt purlins. In No. 7, there are spine beams. The house was built for the Stanton family, and originally No. 7 was an attached barn and dairy.
Local climate
Numbers 5 and 7 (Spring Cottage) 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 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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