Stoneacre is a Grade II* listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. A Early Modern House. 3 related planning applications.
Stoneacre
- WRENN ID
- guardian-attic-smoke
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Stoneacre, 3, High Street, Blisworth, NN7 3BJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 727 535
- Coordinates
- 52.17568, -0.93703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stoneacre is a house located on High Street in Blisworth, dating from the early to mid-17th century, with an extension from the 18th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, banded with ironstone, and features a thatched roof with brick ridge and end stacks. It has a two-unit plan, stands two storeys tall with an attic, and has a four-window range.
The entrance is a 20th-century door to the right, set within a 20th-century porch with a wooden lintel. The ground, first, and attic floors have three-light avolo moulded stone mullion windows, all of which are adorned with hood moulds. There are small one-light leaded staircase windows at the centre of the ground and first floors, and an attic window in an eyebrow dormer. The building has quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers.
The left gable end facing the street features three-light stone mullion windows on both the ground and first floors, as well as a similar two-light attic window. To the right, there is a two-storey, one-window extension, likely from the mid-18th century, which includes a three-light leaded casement window on the ground floor, a leaded fire window, and a two-light leaded casement on the first floor, all with wooden lintels. A two-light chamfered stone mullion cellar window is located to the left of centre, and there is a chamfered plinth at the gable end.
Inside, the house features ogee stop-chamfered spine beams and some original ogee stop-chamfered joists. There is a stone fireplace with moulded jambs and a straight head, as well as a similar corner fireplace upstairs. The interior also includes a winder stair, a collar truss roof, and a stone cellar.
Local climate
Stoneacre 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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