Hartford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hartford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-copper-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hartford Cottage, Main Street, Polebrook, PE8 5LN
- OS grid reference
- TL 068 871
- Coordinates
- 52.47155, -0.42806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hartford Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of regularly coursed limestone and features a slate roof. The original layout was a three-unit plan, and the building is a single storey with an attic. The front has a two-window range at ground level, which contains 20th-century casement windows set in the original openings, topped with wooden lintels. There is a central 20th-century door also under a wooden lintel. The cottage has three 20th-century wooden eaves dormers, along with ashlar gable parapets and rendered stacks at the ridge and ends. A 20th-century brick extension has been added to the rear. Inside, there are chamfered spine beams and two open fireplaces with bressumers. The room to the far right of the entrance was originally unheated.
Local climate
Hartford 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings