Post Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Post Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-granite-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Post Box Cottage, Thorpe Achurch, NN14 3ED
- OS grid reference
- TL 023 815
- Coordinates
- 52.42246, -0.49635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Post Box Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century with a 20th-century extension. It is built of regularly coursed limestone and features a thatched roof. The original structure had a two-unit plan and is a single storey with an attic. The front has a three-window range of 20th-century casements under wooden lintels, two of which have been renewed, along with a fire window located to the far right. In the attic, there are three 20th-century leaded casements beneath eyebrow dormers. The gable ends have ashlar parapets and kneelers, with brick and stone stacks at either end. The entrance is through a single-storey, 20th-century extension at the rear. Inside, the room to the right features an open fireplace with a bressumer, and there is a stud screen on the first floor with wattle infill panels. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Post Box 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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