2, Grafton Road is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1981. Cottage.
2, Grafton Road
- WRENN ID
- graven-wattle-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 2, Grafton Road, Geddington
- OS grid reference
- SP 894 830
- Coordinates
- 52.43769, -0.68549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Grafton Road is a cottage, which was once a barn, likely built in the 17th century. It features coursed limestone rubble with some ironstone and has a thatched roof on the front slope, while the rear is covered with old interlocking concrete tiles. There is a brick ridge stack. The building is one storey with an attic.
On the ground floor, there is a plain board door with a small window and a wooden lintel, a three-light gudgeon-hung iron-framed casement window, a two-light fixed light window in a blocked wide opening, and a three-light early 20th-century casement window, all with wooden lintels. Above, there are two eyebrow dormers with two-light casements, one of which is iron-framed. The rear of the building shows two separate constructions, including a blocked barn doorway in the earlier part that contains a small three-light window with some original leading and glass. There is also a rendered one-storey rear addition with a pantiled roof and a small 20th-century lean-to brick addition at the gable end.
Inside, the left-hand ground floor room features a rudimentary timber-framed inglenook, a chamfered cross-beam, and a wall-boarded door. The right-hand ground floor room has a wall cupboard with H-hinges. The left-hand part of the building includes a pair of raised crucks with a reused cambered collar.
Local climate
2, Grafton Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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