Bottle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1987. House.

Bottle Cottage

WRENN ID
grim-passage-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Bottle Cottage, 20, College Street, Higham Ferrers
OS grid reference
SP 960 686
Coordinates
52.30768, -0.59268
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bottle Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of regularly coursed limestone and features an early 20th-century plain tile roof. The original layout was a two-unit plan, and the building stands two storeys high. The front has a two-window range of casements with glazing bars on the first floor and leaded casements on the ground floor, all set beneath wooden lintels. There is a small leaded casement on the far right of the ground floor that matches the others. The central entrance has a modified 20th-century plank door, also under a wooden lintel. A brick stack is located at one end. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is noted to have an open fireplace with a bressumer and ceiling beams.

Local climate

Bottle 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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