Shelter at Joy Mead Recreation Ground is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. Shelter. 2 related planning applications.
Shelter at Joy Mead Recreation Ground
- WRENN ID
- grey-span-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- Shelter
- Address
- Shelter at Joy Mead Recreation Ground, Main Street, Farthingstone
- OS grid reference
- SP 614 550
- Coordinates
- 52.19012, -1.10273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The shelter at Joy Mead Recreation Ground, built in 1922 by Talbot Brown and Fisher of Wellingborough, is a single-storey structure made of coursed squared ironstone with a dressed ironstone and Collyweston stone slate roof. It features a wide depressed entrance arch within an open stone porch supported by two round columns, which is elevated on two steps. The porch has low basket arches at the front and sides, with a keyblock at the front. The porch is topped with a hipped roof and is flanked by open windows at either end, which have chamfered basket arches supported by square colonnettes at the corners. Similar windows are present on the sides, along with 2-light arched mullion windows further back on either side. Datestones are located in the gables on either side. Inside, opposite the entrance arch, there is an alcove with a wide depressed arch. This alcove contains a central niche with a round arch head and a moulded stone surround, which holds an inscription commemorating Joy, the only daughter of Phillip and Georgette Agnew, who died in 1921 at the age of 22. The recreation ground and shelter are dedicated to her memory.
Local climate
Shelter at Joy Mead Recreation Ground 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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