Stone Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Stone Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-gallery-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stone Cottage, Chapel Lane, Maidford, NN12 8HU
- OS grid reference
- SP 607 525
- Coordinates
- 52.16754, -1.11256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stone Cottage is a house dated 1665, with 20th-century alterations. It is built of coursed ironstone rubble and features a slate roof with brick end stacks on stone bases. The house has a 2-unit plan and stands two storeys tall with an attic. The central entrance is a 20th-century door with a timber lintel. On the ground floor, there are three-light casement windows, also with timber lintels. The first floor has three-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows that are topped with hood moulds. Notable architectural details include quoins, a chamfered plinth, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. A datestone on the rear of the building is inscribed with "IT/1665". Inside, the cottage features chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer.
Local climate
Stone 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 77% 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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- 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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