Old Lion Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Old Lion Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-lantern-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Lion Cottage, Main Road, Moreton Pinkney, NN11 3SG
- OS grid reference
- SP 575 492
- Coordinates
- 52.13881, -1.16021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Lion Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Moreton Pinkney Main Road. It is constructed from coursed ironstone and limestone rubble, topped with an artificial stone slate roof and flanked by brick and stone stacks. The cottage features two storeys and an attic, with two bays. On both floors, there are two 2-light casement windows that have wooden lintels and leaded panes. The gable ends are coped, and the entrance at the rear includes a 20th-century stone porch with a half-glazed door and a wooden lintel. Inside, there is a set of chamfered beams and a winder staircase.
Local climate
Old Lion Cottage 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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