Bank Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Bank Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-threshold-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bank Cottage, Old Forge Lane, Preston Capes, NN11 3TD
- OS grid reference
- SP 574 547
- Coordinates
- 52.18797, -1.16099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank Cottage is a cottage believed to have originally been part of a row of three, dating from the 17th to early 18th century. It features cruck framing and is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble with a corrugated asbestos roof and ridge stacks. The building has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with a three-window range. There is a 20th-century five-panel door located to the left of centre, topped with a timber lintel. The ground floor has irregularly arranged one- and two-light casement windows, with the right-hand windows featuring concrete lintels. The first floor has two-light windows with timber lintels, except for the middle window, which has a concrete lintel. Some brick courses are visible below the eaves, and quoins are present. Inside, the cottage has a riddle cruck truss, likely a full cruck, along with three open fireplaces that have timber bressumers and crudely finished spine beams. The cottage was formerly thatched.
Local climate
Bank Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 6 transactions since 2003
- 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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