40 and 42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
40 and 42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- inner-vestry-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40 and 42, High Street, Blisworth, NN7 3BJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 726 534
- Coordinates
- 52.17483, -0.93972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 40 and 42, High Street
Two cottages dating from the late 17th century, altered in the 20th century. They are constructed of coursed squared limestone. No 40 has a thatched roof, while No 42 has a 20th-century ridged tile roof. Both have brick ridge and end stacks.
The buildings follow a two-unit plan and rise to two storeys with a three-window range across the front.
No 40 features a 20th-century four-light casement window to the left, a small one-light window to the right of centre, and a 20th-century casement to the right, all with wood lintels. The first-floor windows are three-light casements set within eyebrow dormers. A 20th-century porch is positioned at the right end.
No 42 has a pair of small one-light windows to the left and right of centre on the ground floor, with two-light casement windows to the left and right, also with wood lintels. The entrance is at the rear, and a dormer window is positioned to the right of centre.
Internally, No 40 contains an ogee-stop-chamfered spine beam and an open fireplace with a stop-chamfered cambered bressumer.
Local climate
40 and 42, High Street 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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