The Stocking Frame is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
The Stocking Frame
- WRENN ID
- first-courtyard-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Stocking Frame, Wappenham Road, Abthorpe, NN12 8QU
- OS grid reference
- SP 649 464
- Coordinates
- 52.11258, -1.05231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stocking Frame is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dated 1776. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with some flared headers and features a ridged tile roof, along with brick ridge and end stacks. The building is L-shaped, with two storeys and an attic. The main front has three windows and includes a 20th-century door with an overlight and a straight hood supported by brackets. To the left, there is a canted bay window with a pair of horned sash windows at the front and 8-pane sashes on the sides. On the ground floor to the right, there is a 12-pane horned sash window with a gauged brick lintel. The first floor has similar sash windows with brick headers above their lintels. A datestone above the door is inscribed with B/VE/1776. The house features an ironstone plinth, a storey band in English bond, and brick modillion eaves. The right gable is stone-coped with kneelers, while the left has a hipped roof. A wing at the rear left has irregular fenestration, and its rear portion is made of coursed squared limestone and ironstone. This wing continues with a single-storey extension of coursed limestone rubble. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Stocking Frame 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
- 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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