8, Spencer Parade is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. Residential building. 2 related planning applications.
8, Spencer Parade
- WRENN ID
- long-grate-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton North MP: Lucy Rigby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1976
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- 8, Spencer Parade, Northampton, NN1 5AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 760 605
- Coordinates
- 52.23759, -0.88824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8 Spencer Parade is a building dating from around 1840. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a hipped roof covered with Welsh slates. The building has two storeys and is characterized by quoins, a plinth, floor and sill bands, a bracketed cornice, and a blocking course. There are two sash windows with architrave surrounds and a central dummy window. The entrance includes a door with a rectangular fanlight that has glazing bars, all set within an architrave surround under a cornice supported by consoles. To the left, there is a wing at an angle that features a two-storey canted bay and attics. This building is part of a group with Nos 1 to 8 Spencer Parade and No 1 Cheyne Walk.
Local climate
8, Spencer Parade sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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