Boyd Cottage and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1985. Cottage.

Boyd Cottage and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
young-loft-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 November 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Boyd Cottage and Attached Barn, Church Hill, Badby
OS grid reference
SP 559 588
Coordinates
52.2247, -1.18278
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Boyd Cottage and the attached barn are located on Badby Church Hill and date back to 1728. The cottage is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble, with some brick courses below the eaves, and features a corrugated iron roof over the remains of a thatch roof, along with brick end stacks. It has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high with a two-window range. The central entrance consists of a plank door surrounded by wood, with a timber lintel and a 20th-century gabled hood. This is flanked by two-light casement windows with timber lintels on both the ground and first floors. Above the door is a datestone inscribed with S/RJ/1728. At the rear, there is a 20th-century single-storey brick extension. Inside, the cottage includes a stop-chamfered spine beam, an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer, a winder-stair, a collar truss roof, and a stud partition between the bedrooms. The attached barn, likely built in the 18th century and remodeled in the 19th century, is also made of coursed ironstone rubble and features a brick eaves course and a corrugated iron roof. It has two storeys and a central door with a loft door above.

Local climate

Boyd Cottage and Attached Barn 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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