The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1986. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-minaret-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The White Cottage, Wappenham Road, Abthorpe, NN12 8QU
- OS grid reference
- SP 650 464
- Coordinates
- 52.11277, -1.05209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located on Wappenham Road in Abthorpe. The building is constructed of coursed rubble and painted white, featuring a corrugated iron roof that covers the remains of a thatch roof, with a brick stack at one end. It has a one-unit plan and is two stories tall with a single window range facing the road. The cottage has 2-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, each with timber lintels. To the left, there is a single-storey brick addition. The right gable end features a gabled timber porch with a plank door that has a moulded wood surround. Above the porch, there is a 2-light casement window in the gable, also with a timber lintel. Inside, the cottage includes a chamfered spine beam, an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer, a winder stair, and a 2-bay collar-truss roof.
Local climate
The White Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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