The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1976. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- salt-corbel-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Towcester
- OS grid reference
- SP 694 467
- Coordinates
- 52.11502, -0.98724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features rendered stone walls and a plain-tile roof from the 20th century, with brick stacks at the ends and along the ridge, the latter resting on a rendered stone base. The building has a two-unit plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a three-window range. A 20th-century door is located to the left of the center, set within a 20th-century porch. To the right, there is a tiled projection, and the ground floor and first floor to the right have three-light casement windows, while the first floor to the left has two-light casements, all featuring wood lintels. Inside, the cottage includes chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a chamfered cambered bressumer.
Local climate
The 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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