Walnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Cottage.
Walnut Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-lintel-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Cottage, Kilsby Road, Barby
- OS grid reference
- SP 545 704
- Coordinates
- 52.32908, -1.20117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Cottage is a 18th-century cottage located on the south side of Kilsby Road in Barby. It features a coursed limestone rubble plinth and rendered walls, likely constructed with cob, topped with a corrugated iron roof over thatch and brick stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and consists of five bays. The doorway, located in the second bay from the left, has a wooden lintel and a plank door. There are 6-pane windows with wooden lintels on either side of the doorway. The right bay contains a 3-light casement window with a wooden lintel, while the second bay from the right has a similar 2-light window. The first floor features 2-light casement windows, all with wooden lintels. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Walnut Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings