Briar Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. A Early C19 House. 1 related planning application.
Briar Hill House
- WRENN ID
- outer-ledge-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton South MP: Mike Reader (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Briar Hill House, Northampton
- OS grid reference
- SP 740 591
- Coordinates
- 52.22587, -0.91665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Hill House, formerly known as Briar Hill Farmhouse, is an early 19th-century building. It is constructed of squared rubble and features a hipped roof covered with Welsh slate, which has wide eaves. The house is two storeys high and has three sash windows with glazing bars set in reveals beneath flat arches. The central entrance consists of a six flush panel door topped by an oblong fanlight with glazing bars, all framed by fluted Doric pilasters and an entablature with a cornice hood. Each side elevation includes a canted bay window on the ground floor, and there is a two-window back wing.
Local climate
Briar Hill House 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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 — 1 application
- 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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