The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-pedestal-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Main Street, Wadenhoe, PE8 5ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 011 835
- Coordinates
- 52.44034, -0.51264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a mid-18th century house located on the east side of Main Street, Wadenhoe. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone with a thatched roof and has an irregular T-shaped plan. The main front of the house has four bays, with a gabled cross wing projecting forward to the left of centre. The right-hand side of the front elevation features a two-window range with 19th-century casement windows under wooden lintels. Similar casement windows are found beneath eyebrow dormers in the attic. A central four-panel door, also with a wooden lintel, sits between the window range. Casement windows are also present in the return wall of the cross wing. A bay to the far right has been blocked up. The house has ashlar gable parapets with kneelers, and an ashlar stack with moulded cornices to the right gable. A brick stack is also visible on the ridge. A single-storey outbuilding attached to the far left now forms part of the main house. Internally, there are remnants of three open fireplaces with bressumers. Part of the building was briefly used as a public house.
Local climate
The 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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 — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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