Pixie Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Pixie Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pixie Cottage, 3, Overstone Road, Moulton, NN3 7UL
- OS grid reference
- SP 786 662
- Coordinates
- 52.28916, -0.84789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pixie Cottage is an early 18th-century house located on the north side of Moulton Overstone Road. The building is constructed of regular coursed lias stone, painted white, and has a thatched roof. It follows a two-unit plan, and is a single storey with an attic. The front elevation has a one-window range of casement windows, each set beneath a timber lintel. A 20th-century door is located on the left side. The roof features an eyebrow dormer, a brick gable parapet, and brick stacks at each end. The interior contains ceiling beams.
Local climate
Pixie 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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 — 3 transactions since 2015
- 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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