169, Watling Street West is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1976. A C18 Shop and offices. 5 related planning applications.
169, Watling Street West
- WRENN ID
- turning-minaret-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1976
- Type
- Shop and offices
- Address
- 169, Watling Street West, Towcester, NN12 6BX
- OS grid reference
- SP 693 486
- Coordinates
- 52.13166, -0.9885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 169 on Watling Street West is a shop and offices that was originally a shop and dwelling. It dates from the mid-18th century and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is made of red brick laid in Flemish bond, which has been painted, and features a slate roof with brick stacks at either end. It has a three-unit plan and a three-storey, five-window range. The ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts on either side of a 20th-century glazed door, with an arch to the far left that provides access to Meeting Lane. The first floor contains 19th-century sash windows with rendered segmental-arched brick heads and keyblocks. There is a second-floor storey band, with blocked angles and moulded stone eaves. Inside, the building features chamfered spine beams and a cambered stop-chamfered bressumer above the first-floor fireplace, which may have been reset.
Local climate
169, Watling Street West 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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