Dial House and Fairway Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.
Dial House and Fairway Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-alcove-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Dial House and Fairway Cottage, High Street, Culworth, OX17 2BD
- OS grid reference
- SP 541 471
- Coordinates
- 52.1196, -1.21078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages dated to the 17th century, located on High Street in Culworth. They are constructed from coursed limestone rubble, with decorative bands of ironstone, and have a roof of artificial stone slates, topped with brick stacks.
The cottage to the right, known as Fairway Cottage, is two bays wide. It has a central doorway with a wooden lintel, a four-panel part-glazed door, and a timber lattice-work porch. There are three-light casement windows with wooden lintels on either side of the door. Similar windows are found on the first floor. The cottage to the left, Dial House, is four bays wide, with a plank door, side-lights and a wooden lintel on the right bay. A three-light casement window with wooden lintel sits to the left of the doorway. A 20th-century bay window occupies the second bay from the left, and a three-light casement window with wooden lintel is located in the left bay. The first floor has three-light casement windows with wooden lintels in the right bay and second bay from the right. Smaller two-light windows are present in the left bay and second bay from the right along the first floor. The left gable has a coping, with kneelers. A blocked two-light stone mullioned window is located at first floor and attic level on the left side of the building. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Dial House and Fairway Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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 — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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