Wardens Cottage Adjacent to Youth Hostel on South West is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Cottage.
Wardens Cottage Adjacent to Youth Hostel on South West
- WRENN ID
- stony-solder-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SP 560 587
- Coordinates
- 52.22424, -1.18089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Warden's Cottage, located adjacent to the Youth Hostel on the southwest side of Badby Church Green, is a cottage dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble and features a corrugated iron roof with brick end stacks. The cottage has a one-unit plan and stands two storeys tall, with a two-window range. There is a 20th-century door to the left and a three-light casement window to the right, along with two-light casements on the first floor. The door and windows are topped with stop-chamfered timber lintels. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a cambered chamfered bressumer and a boxed spine beam. The plank door leading to the winder staircase is fitted with H-L hinges. The cottage was formerly thatched.
Local climate
Wardens Cottage Adjacent to Youth Hostel on South West 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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- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2006
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