Barby Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Barby Cottage

WRENN ID
woven-iron-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Barby Cottage, 21, Kilsby Road, CV23 8TU
OS grid reference
SP 544 704
Coordinates
52.32903, -1.20195
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barby Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Kilsby Road. It features pebbledashed walls and a thatched roof with a central rendered stack. The building has two storeys and an attic, comprising three bays. The doorway in the right bay is topped with a gabled timber hood and has a three-panel part-glazed door set in a pebbledashed surround. To the left of the doorway is a four-light casement window with a similar surround, while the left bay has a three-light casement window with a wooden lintel. On the first floor, there is a two-light casement window with a wooden lintel in the right bay, and other first-floor windows are three-light casements with wooden lintels. The attic on the right side has two-light casement windows with wooden lintels. There is a 20th-century extension that extends forward from the left side of the cottage. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Barby Cottage 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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