Grove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.
Grove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-spandrel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grove Cottage, Church Lane, Grafton Regis, NN12 7SS
- OS grid reference
- SP 757 466
- Coordinates
- 52.11339, -0.89488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with possible older origins and some alterations made in the 20th century. It is built from coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof with brick ridge and end stacks. The cottage is two stories high and has a four-window range, following a three-unit through-passage plan with an additional one-unit section.
There is a blocked door to the left of the center with a wooden lintel, and a 20th-century door with a wooden lintel further to the left. The ground floor has two-light casement windows to the left of the center and three-light casements to the right of the center, all with wooden lintels. The first floor features two-light casements in eyebrow dormers. A single-storey extension is located at the left end of the building.
Inside, the cottage has bar-stop-chamfered spine beams with heart-shaped stops at the ends, some original stop-chamfered joists, and two open fireplaces, one with stop-chamfered stone jambs and another with a stop-chamfered bressumer. The roof structure includes two collars to the principal rafters. The right end bay has a cruder spine beam and large joists that are visible externally, suggesting it may have originally served as an outbuilding.
Local climate
Grove 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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