1 and 3, Wood Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1987. A C15 House. 1 related planning application.

1 and 3, Wood Street

WRENN ID
rooted-buttress-russet
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
1 and 3, Wood Street, Higham Ferrers, NN10 8DL
OS grid reference
SP 960 684
Coordinates
52.30564, -0.59245
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 1 and 3 Wood Street is a house, now divided into two dwellings, dating from the 15th century and remodelled in the 18th century. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone and has an asbestos tile roof. Originally an open hall, it is now two storeys high. The first floor features a four-window range, with two horizontal sash windows with glazing bars on the right and two 19th-century sash windows on the left. The ground floor has two early 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars, and there are two 20th-century ribbed doors in the centre. All openings are topped with wood lintels. The building has a gable parapet and a brick stack on the left side.

Inside No. 1, there is a fine medieval roof structure consisting of two bays, featuring a central moulded arch-braced truss with carved wooden corbels that support colonettes. Each bay has arched wind braces. There are fragments of an 18th-century moulded cornice on the ceiling and a small 17th or 18th-century fireplace with a bressumer. The ground floor through-passage retains 18th-century timber framing with brick infilling, indicating that it is part of a medieval hall that was likely subdivided in the 17th or 18th century.

Local climate

1 and 3, Wood Street 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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