Bumble Bee Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1988. House.

Bumble Bee Cottage

WRENN ID
outer-lime-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Bumble Bee Cottage, 5, Main Street, Wakeley, Wakerley, LE15 8PA
OS grid reference
SP 955 994
Coordinates
52.58445, -0.59056
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bumble Bee Cottage is a house located on Main Street in Wakerley, originally listed as No. 5 (Tyke's Cottage). It dates from the early 18th century and 19th century. The building is constructed from regularly coursed limestone and features a roof made of pantiles and thatch. It was originally designed as a single-unit plan and is a single storey with an attic. The cottage has a two-window range with 19th-century casement windows under wooden lintels, and there is a similar casement window under an eyebrow dormer in the attic. The central door, also in the 19th-century style, is a plank door situated under a wooden lintel. At one end, there is a brick and stone stack. To the left, there is a 19th-century single-storey outbuilding with a pantile roof, which now forms part of the house. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Bumble Bee Cottage 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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