4, Church Lane is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1988. Cottage.
4, Church Lane
- WRENN ID
- stony-merlon-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 4, Church Lane, Alderton
- OS grid reference
- SP 740 469
- Coordinates
- 52.11582, -0.92063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Church Lane is a cottage dating from the late 17th century and 18th century, with 20th-century alterations and an extension. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof with a brick ridge stack. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and has a one-window range. It was likely originally built as a one-unit cottage, with a one-unit extension added to the right in the 18th century.
The front includes a 20th-century door to the left with a wooden lintel, a 2-light casement window to the ground floor left of centre, and a similar 3-light window to the right, both with wooden lintels. There is a 2-light casement window in the first floor's eyebrow dormer. A straight joint is visible at the centre, with ironstone quoins to the left of the joint. The rear features a 20th-century extension.
Inside, the older part of the cottage has an ogee-stop-chamfered spine beam, several original ogee-stop-chamfered joists, and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. The roof of this section is an old common rafter type.
Local climate
4, Church Lane 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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