Prospect House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. A C19 House. 4 related planning applications.
Prospect House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-rafter-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prospect House, 174, Watling Street East, Towcester, NN12 6DB
- OS grid reference
- SP 691 489
- Coordinates
- 52.13471, -0.99141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect House is an early 19th-century house, likely with origins dating back to the 16th or 17th centuries. The house is constructed of white-painted and stuccoed brick, with a Welsh slate roof and brick end stacks. It is a two-story building with a three-window front, featuring 10-pane sash windows with brick cambered heads. A storeyband runs across the front, and there is an unhorned sash window on the ground floor. The central doorway has a stucco architrave and a deep flat hood with a panelled soffit, supported by large cut brackets. The door is a four-panel design, partially glazed. A two-story extension and a single-story painted rubble stone extension are located at the rear. Two flat-roofed dormers are also present. The rear wall reveals evidence of an earlier house having been raised a storey during a 19th-century rebuilding. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Prospect 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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
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