The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-pilaster-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton North MP: Lucy Rigby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Christchurch Road, Northampton, NN1 5LN
- OS grid reference
- SP 774 614
- Coordinates
- 52.24536, -0.86776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an original Rectory, dating from the late 17th century. It is located on Christchurch Road, south-west of Abington Abbey, and was sometimes referred to as the Estate Departments Office. The building is constructed of squared rubble, with stone coped gables to a tiled roof. It has a ‘L’ shaped plan and stands two storeys high with attics. The windows are varied casements with stone flat arches over the ground floor openings. The Cottage forms a group with the Church of St Peter and St Paul and Abington Abbey.
Local climate
The 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- 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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