Church House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-attic-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church House, 9, Market Square, Higham Ferrers
- OS grid reference
- SP 960 685
- Coordinates
- 52.30639, -0.59247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century but was reconstructed in the early to mid-19th century. It is built from squared coursed limestone and orange brick, topped with a plain tile roof from the early 20th century. The original design featured a two-unit plan and the house has two storeys.
The front has a two-window range of 19th-century sash windows with wooden lintels on the first floor. On the ground floor, there is a 17th-century canted bay window with stone mullions on the left, and a similar bay window on the right that has been modified, which also contains two 19th-century sash windows under wooden lintels. There is a lean-to roof over the bay windows. The ground floor is made of stone with a chamfered plinth, while the first floor is constructed of 19th-century brickwork. The right gable features an ashlar parapet, and there are brick stacks at the ridge and end of the building.
At the back, there is a 19th-century wing that includes a panelled door under a wooden lintel, located to the left of the main front. Inside, there is a 19th-century staircase with a stick balustrade. The room to the right of the entrance boasts fine 17th-century moulded ceiling beams, and a moulded fireplace bressumer that has been reset from a now-demolished house on Wood Street.
Local climate
Church House 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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