Church House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1950. House.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-tracery-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church House, 5, Lower Street, Desborough
- OS grid reference
- SP 803 830
- Coordinates
- 52.43988, -0.81995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a house located on Lower Street, dating from the early 18th century, with additions and alterations from the 19th and mid-20th centuries. It is constructed of ironstone with limestone dressings and has a mid-20th century pantile roof. The building features coped gables with kneelers and has two gable and one ridge brick stacks. It stands two storeys plus attics and consists of five bays, with the openings arranged in a pattern of one, three, and one.
The south front has an off-centre mid-20th century door with an overlight, and both floors are fitted with 6/6 sash windows, all featuring keystoned flat arches. The attic includes five flat-roofed dormers with glazing bar casements. The gables have glazing bar sashes and casements, one on each floor. At the rear, there is an off-centre tent-roofed bay window, and to the left, a mid-20th century canted porch in the return angle. Above this porch, to the left, are three 2-light leaded casements.
Inside, the building retains a principal rafter roof. The mid-20th century rear wing is not considered to have special architectural interest.
Local climate
Church House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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