Plum Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
Plum Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-facade-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Plum Tree Cottage, Main Street, Great Oxendon, LE16 8NG
- OS grid reference
- SP 731 834
- Coordinates
- 52.44379, -0.92508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plum Tree Cottage is a house dating from 1712, as indicated by the datestone. It is constructed of brick and has a slate roof. The original structure features a single unit plan and stands two storeys high with an attic. The front has a two-window range of casements under gauged brick arches; the left windows include transoms and some leaded lights. There is an ashlar string course between the floors, and the right gable has an ashlar parapet and kneelers, with a brick stack at the end. The datestone is located in the right gable. There is a 19th-century extension on the left side.
Local climate
Plum Tree Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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