Touchwood is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. House, public house.
Touchwood
- WRENN ID
- distant-jamb-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- House, public house
- Address
- Touchwood, Brook Street, Moreton Pinkney
- OS grid reference
- SP 573 492
- Coordinates
- 52.13834, -1.16334
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Touchwood is a house that was formerly a public house, dating from the 18th century and remodelled in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and coursed rubble, topped with an artificial stone slate roof and flanked by brick and stone stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. The central doorway features a wood lintel and a five-panel door that is partly glazed, along with a timber lattice work porch. The flanking windows have wood lintels and four-pane sashes with side lights, and similar windows are found on the first floor. The gable ends are coped and have kneelers. Although the interior was not inspected, the building was formerly known as "The Old Crown" and still shows traces of a painted sign on the front advertising "Hopcraft and Norris Celebrated Ales."
Local climate
Touchwood sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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