Number 2 and Attached Shop is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Number 2 and Attached Shop
- WRENN ID
- guardian-corbel-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Number 2 and Attached Shop, College Street, Higham Ferrers, NN10 8DZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 960 685
- Coordinates
- 52.30657, -0.59259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century house, now a house and shop. It is located in Higham Ferrers, with its main front facing College Street and an elevation to the right abutting Market Square. The building is constructed of squared, coursed limestone and has a concrete tile roof.
The front elevation has three bays and features 20th-century casement windows within original openings, each set under stone lintels with keyblocks. A central six-panel door is surrounded by a moulded wooden frame and topped with a flat hood. A 20th-century shop front is located on the right-hand side. The front has ashlar gable parapets, kneelers, and truncated brick stacks at the ridge and end.
The right-hand elevation, overlooking Market Square, includes a shallow gable on the left with Venetian-style tripartite sash windows with small panes of glass on the first and second floors. These windows are similar in style to those of the Town Hall. Sash windows to the right reduce in number at the second floor and also feature glazing bars and flat stone arches with keyblocks. A 20th-century shop window is present on the ground floor to the left.
The interior of the building was noted to have panelled window reveals, although it has not been inspected.
Local climate
Number 2 and Attached Shop 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- 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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