Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-lintel-twilight
- 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
- Virginia Cottage, 26, Chapel Street, Titchmarsh, NN14 3DA
- OS grid reference
- TL 024 796
- Coordinates
- 52.40556, -0.49554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is a house dating from 1712, constructed of squared coursed limestone with a pantile roof. It originally had a two-unit plan and is two storeys high. The front features a two-window range of 20th-century casements, with the ground floor right window having an ashlar surround and a hood mould. The first-floor windows are located under Lincolnshire eaves dormers. There is a central 20th-century door with a hood and a flight of stone steps leading up to it. The left gable has an ashlar parapet and finial, while the right gable has an ashlar parapet and a brick and stone stack aligned with the party wall. The left gable also includes a first-floor unhorned sash window with glazing bars beneath a wood lintel. A datestone is positioned in the apex of the gable. The rear of the house has 19th and 20th-century extensions. Inside, there is a large open fireplace with a bressumer in the room to the right of the entrance, and the first-floor structure is supported by an internal timber frame.
Local climate
Virginia 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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