Pair of Urns at Head of Flight of Steps Approximately 10 Metres South of West Front, Boughton House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1992. Monument.
Pair of Urns at Head of Flight of Steps Approximately 10 Metres South of West Front, Boughton House
- WRENN ID
- half-cinder-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1992
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- SP 899 815
- Coordinates
- 52.4242, -0.67864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This description is for a pair of urns located at the top of a flight of steps approximately 10 meters south of the west front of Boughton House. The urns date from the 18th century and are made of lead, resting on stone pedestals. The urns feature egg-and-dart moulding at the base, with the body decorated with foliage and masks, and foliar scrolls as handles.
Local climate
Pair of Urns at Head of Flight of Steps Approximately 10 Metres South of West Front, Boughton House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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