Old Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Old Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-rubble-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Rectory Cottage, 66, Castle Ashby
- OS grid reference
- SP 853 585
- Coordinates
- 52.21896, -0.75242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building, originally a stable and coach house, dated 1726 and altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with some ironstone dressings, topped with an inter-locking tile roof and a stone ridge stack. The cottage features a three-unit plan and is one storey with an attic, comprising a six-bay range.
To the left of the center is a Tudor-arched moulded stone doorway with a rectangular wave-moulded surround and a hood mould. Above this doorway is a datestone inscribed with "TE7/1726" and a heraldic lion. There is a former coach house doorway to the left, which has been converted to a glazed opening, and a chamfered doorway to the far right with a round-arched head. The building also includes two and three-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows. A central gabled dormer features a similar two-light window and a ventilation slit above. The stone-coped gables are adorned with kneelers. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Old Rectory Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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