Northampton Top Lock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1987. Cottage.

Northampton Top Lock Cottage

WRENN ID
under-lime-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Northampton Top Lock Cottage, Grand Union Canal, Rothersthorpe
OS grid reference
SP 722 560
Coordinates
52.1979, -0.94415
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Northampton Top Lock Cottage is a lock-keeper's cottage built around 1815. It features a painted brick exterior and a hipped slate roof with 20th-century brick lateral stacks. The cottage has a two-unit plan and is two storeys high, with a three-window range. The central entrance has a 20th-century part-glazed door with a segmental-arched head, flanked by canted bay windows. The first floor has two-light sliding casement windows, and the central bay slightly projects forward. The eaves are deep and overhanging. There is a single-storey extension to the left. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is located at the head of a flight of locks on the Northampton arm of the Grand Union Canal.

Local climate

Northampton Top Lock Cottage 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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