Rookery Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rookery Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-shingle-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rookery Cottage, 14, Church Street, Silverstone, NN12 8XA
- OS grid reference
- SP 665 442
- Coordinates
- 52.09285, -1.02961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Cottage is a 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Church Street in Silverstone. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone and ironstone, topped with a thatch roof and featuring brick end stacks. The cottage has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys tall with a two-window range. A 20th-century plank door is positioned to the left of center, with a timber lintel that extends over a three-light casement window to the left. To the right, there is a blocked door with a timber lintel extending over another three-light window. The first floor features two-light casements with timber lintels set in eyebrow dormers. There is a single-storey tiled extension to the left. Inside, the cottage has chamfered spine beams and open fireplaces with chamfered bressumers.
Local climate
Rookery 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 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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