Vine Cottage and Thatchers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Vine Cottage and Thatchers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-corbel-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vine Cottage and Thatchers Cottage, Ashton Green, PE8 5LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 057 882
- Coordinates
- 52.48218, -0.44456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now divided into two dwellings, Vine Cottage and Thatchers Cottage. The origins of the building date to 1659, with further work in 1730. It was remodelled in the early 20th century for Charles Rothschild by W. Hackvale. The house is constructed of squared coursed limestone with a thatched roof. Originally a three-unit plan, it is a single-storey building with an attic. The front has a three-window range of early 20th century three-light stone mullion windows, with smaller windows in eyebrow dormers to the attic. There are 20th-century doors, one to the left and one to the right of the centre, set beneath artificial stone lintels. The building features ashlar gable parapets, ashlar ridge and end stacks with moulded cornices. A datestone inscribed 1730 is positioned above the doorway to Vine Cottage, with a moulded cornice; and a datestone inscribed 1650 is above a window on the left-hand side. A fire insurance plaque is located to the right of the doorway. A 19th-century wing at the rear was remodelled in the early 20th century. The interiors were not inspected, but Thatchers Cottage is noted to contain an open fireplace with a bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Vine Cottage and Thatchers 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2014
- 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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