Knight's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Knight's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-gateway-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton South MP: Mike Reader (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Knight's Cottage, 10, Orchard Hill, Billing, NN3 9AG
- OS grid reference
- SP 804 619
- Coordinates
- 52.25006, -0.82255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knight's Cottage, located on Orchard Hill in Little Billing, dates from the 18th century. This building is constructed from coursed rubble and features a thatched roof along with a doorhood. It stands two storeys high and has flush casement windows with glazing bars set beneath wooden lintels. The entrance is through a ledged door, and there are red brick battered buttresses. Knight's Cottage was formerly two separate cottages, numbered 8 and 10. It is part of a group that includes Nos 4, 6, and 10.
Local climate
Knight's Cottage 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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