Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1976. Cottage.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-lintel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Cottage, Church Lane, Towcester
- OS grid reference
- SP 694 486
- Coordinates
- 52.13175, -0.98696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is an 18th-century cottage built of coursed limestone rubble with a thatched roof and brick end stacks. It has a two-unit plan and is two stories high with a two-window range. The entrance front faces south and features a 20th-century door to the right of center, which has a wooden lintel and is sheltered by a 20th-century timber gabled porch. To the left of the door is a small one-light window, and there are two-light casement windows on the ground floor to the left and right, all with wooden lintels. At the rear, there are older two-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors; the ground floor windows have red brick jambs, while the first-floor windows are set in eyebrow dormers, all with wooden lintels. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
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