The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1985. House.

The Old House

WRENN ID
sharp-wall-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1985
Type
House
Address
The Old House, Harborough Road, Maidwell
OS grid reference
SP 746 770
Coordinates
52.38652, -0.9049
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old House is a mid-18th century house located on the east side of Harborough Road in Maidwell. It is constructed of regularly coursed lias stone and features a plain tiled roof added in the 20th century. The house has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys tall, with a four-window range of casement windows that have wooden lintels. There are central doors from the 20th century, and brick stacks are present at the ridge and the ends of the building. At the rear, there is an 18th-century wing. Some ground floor windows have shutter hooks and catches. Inside, the rooms on the left and rear right include open fireplaces with bressumers, and there are stop-chamfered beams on the ground floor. The house also features a collar roof truss. At one point, it was used as three separate dwellings.

Local climate

The Old House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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