Number 53 and 55 and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1987. House and stables. 2 related planning applications.
Number 53 and 55 and Attached Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- upper-tracery-soot
- 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 and stables
- Address
- Number 53 and 55 and Attached Outbuildings, High Street, Thrapston, NN14 4JJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 996 786
- Coordinates
- 52.39705, -0.53713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 53 and 55, along with the attached outbuildings, is a house and former stables that have been converted into two shops and a flat. The building dates from the early 18th century and the late 18th to early 19th century. It is constructed of regular coursed limestone with a painted facade and features a concrete tile roof at the front and a part pantile roof at the rear. Originally, it had a two-unit plan and consists of two storeys and an attic.
The first floor has a three-window range of sash windows with glazing bars; the windows on the left and right are tripartite, all set beneath stop-chamfered lintels. The ground floor features an early 20th-century shop front with a six-panel door located to the far right, accompanied by glazed toplights. There are also a pair of flat-topped roof doors. The building has ashlar gable parapets and kneelers, along with a brick stack at the end.
To the right, there is an additional bay that is 18th century and constructed differently, slightly projecting from the main range. This bay has an unhorned sash window with glazing bars on the first floor and an early 20th-century shop front on the ground floor, which includes two part-glazed double doors with a fascia above.
At the rear, there is a former 18th-century stable that features irregularly spaced casements and three Lincolnshire dormers, with the gable end being weatherboarded. The interiors of the shops have ceiling beams that are now boxed.
Local climate
Number 53 and 55 and Attached Outbuildings 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 — 4 transactions since 2001
- 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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