The Nunnery is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Farmhouse.
The Nunnery
- WRENN ID
- plain-spandrel-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Nunnery, 3 and 3a, Desborough Road, Rothwell
- OS grid reference
- SP 814 812
- Coordinates
- 52.42332, -0.80428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nunnery is a farmhouse, now divided into two houses, dating from 1660. It is constructed of coursed and squared ironstone with limestone and brick dressings, featuring plain tile and thatched roofs. The building has a rubble plinth and includes an off-centre coped stone ridge stack, a brick ridge stack, and a stone gable stack that has been rebuilt in brick.
The structure is two storeys high and consists of four bays in a single range. The street front showcases a central narrow gabled two-storey porch, which has a moulded Tudor arched doorcase and recessed Tudor arched jambs with decorated spandrels, leading to a 17th-century plank door. Above the door is a lozenge-shaped datestone inscribed 'J T B 1660'. Above this, there is a stepped head three-light mullioned casement. To the left of the door, there are a four-light and a two-light casement, both from the mid-20th century. To the right, there are two three-light transomed steel framed casements. Further along, there is a blocked window and a cellar opening below it. Above, to the left, is a three-light casement, and to the right are two three-light casements with eyebrow dormers. All these openings feature wooden lintels.
At the rear, there is a near-central semi-circular thatched projection, flanked by mid-20th century single-storey additions with corrugated sheet roofs. Beyond these additions, to the right, are the remains of two mullioned casements.
Local climate
The Nunnery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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