1 and 3 Blakesley Hill is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
1 and 3 Blakesley Hill
- WRENN ID
- deep-portal-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1 and 3 Blakesley Hill, Greens Norton, Towcester, NN12 8BP
- OS grid reference
- SP 667 498
- Coordinates
- 52.14299, -1.02605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 3 Blakesley Hill are a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are constructed from painted coursed rubble and feature roofs made of corrugated iron and asbestos, with brick ridge and end stacks. Each cottage has a two-unit plan and is two stories high with a three-window range.
No. 1, located on the left, has a plank door with a timber lintel, flanked by two old two-light casement windows, also with timber lintels. There is a similar smaller window on the first floor to the right. No. 3 has a 20th-century door with timber lintels and two-light 20th-century casements in the original openings on both the ground and first floors, along with a two-story, one-window extension to the right. Both cottages were originally thatched, but the eaves were raised in brick when the thatch was removed.
Inside, No. 1 features a fine open fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer and stop-chamfered spine beams.
Local climate
1 and 3 Blakesley Hill 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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