The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1987. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-balcony-dew
- 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
- Address
- The Cottage, Drayton Road, Lowick
- OS grid reference
- SP 963 799
- Coordinates
- 52.40922, -0.58539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It features a cruck-framed structure made of squared coursed limestone with a thatched roof. Originally designed with a two-unit plan, it is a single storey building with an attic. The front has a two-window range of 19th-century casement windows set under wooden lintels, and there is a central 20th-century door also beneath a wooden lintel. A brick stack is located at one end, while the right gable includes a part-leaded casement window for the attic. At the rear, there is a leaded casement window and an early 20th-century single-storey extension. Inside, the room to the left of the entrance retains the remains of an open fireplace with a bressumer, along with spine beams and cruck roof construction.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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