Queen Anne Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Queen Anne Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-cupola-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Queen Anne Cottage, 27, High Street, Potterspury, NN12 7PG
- OS grid reference
- SP 757 431
- Coordinates
- 52.08197, -0.89551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Queen Anne Cottage is a house dated 1689, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone and features a slate roof with stone end stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a three-window range, following a two-unit central-staircase plan. The central entrance has a 20th-century door with a stop-chamfered wood lintel, and above it is a datestone inscribed with "GP.1689".
The cottage has two-light cast-iron diamond-patterned casement windows on both the ground and first floors, except for a replacement two-light casement window on the left side of the ground floor. All windows have flat-arched lintels. There are also two 20th-century roof dormers.
Inside, the cottage features ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. There is a corner fireplace in another ground floor room, also with a stop-chamfered bressumer, and another corner fireplace in an upstairs room. The dog-leg staircase leads from the ground floor to the attic, with twisted balusters on the first flight and stick balusters on the upper flights. The roof is supported by a collar-truss structure.
Local climate
Queen Anne 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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