Home Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1985. Cottage.
Home Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-loft-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Home Cottage, the Green, Hinton-In-The-Hedges
- OS grid reference
- SP 559 369
- Coordinates
- 52.02797, -1.18647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th to 18th century, constructed from uncoursed limestone rubble with a thatched roof and brick stacks. The building has two storeys and consists of two bays. It features windows with original wood lintels and 20th-century casements on both floors. To the left, there is an extension, which was originally an outhouse and is now part of the dwelling. This extension has a 20th-century doorway in the right bay and a timber porch with a thatched roof. On the left side, there is a single-light casement window with a wood lintel and a similar two-light window. Additionally, there is a large semi-circular bread oven with a thatched roof on the left side. Inside, the cottage showcases raised cruck construction and original stud partitions.
Local climate
Home 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings