Olive Tree Cottage and Adjoining Shop and Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. House, shop, bakery.
Olive Tree Cottage and Adjoining Shop and Bakery
- WRENN ID
- fallow-transept-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- House, shop, bakery
- OS grid reference
- SP 539 661
- Coordinates
- 52.291, -1.20994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Olive Tree Cottage and the adjoining shop and bakery is a building that consists of a house, shop, and bakery. The house dates from the 17th century, while the shop and bakery are believed to have been converted from a former barn in the 19th century. The house is located on the left and is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with a tile roof and flanking brick stacks. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring five bays. On the ground floor, there are two three-light wood casement windows in moulded stone frames with square hoods, along with a small one-light window in a moulded stone frame in the right bay. The first floor has 20th-century two-light casement windows with wood lintels, and there are 20th-century gabled timber attic dormers. Inside, the house has chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with an original timber bressumer and a Victorian grate.
The shop and bakery, located to the right, also features coursed ironstone rubble and a tile roof with brick stacks. It has two storeys and four bays, with a gabled bay on the right. The entrance in the left bay has a stone lintel and a 20th-century door. The shop front, dating from the 19th century, includes a central half-glazed door flanked by bay windows with a moulded stone cornice. Other windows are from the 19th and 20th centuries. The interior of the shop and bakery has been remodelled in the 20th century.
Local climate
Olive Tree Cottage and Adjoining Shop and Bakery receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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