Blacksmiths Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.
Blacksmiths Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-vestry-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blacksmiths Cottage, 57, High Street, Irchester, NN29 7AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 926 658
- Coordinates
- 52.28296, -0.64399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blacksmiths Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of regularly coursed limestone with a brick gable and a plain-tile roof added in the 20th century. The original layout features a two-unit plan with a through passage. The building has two storeys and a three-window range of leaded casements, some of which have been partly renewed, all set under wooden lintels. The central door, also from the 20th century, is located under a wooden lintel and there is a cellar door to the right. Brick stacks are positioned at both ends of the cottage. Inside, the room to the left of the entrance includes an open fireplace with a bressumer and spine beams.
Local climate
Blacksmiths 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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