Number 4 Including Garden Area Railings in Front is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
Number 4 Including Garden Area Railings in Front
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-pedestal-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 4 Including Garden Area Railings in Front, Towcester Road, Old Stratford, MK19 6AQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 778 411
- Coordinates
- 52.06364, -0.86524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 4, including the garden area and railings in front, is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century, with some raising in the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone and has a slate roof with brick end stacks. The building is three storeys tall with a basement and features a two-window range. It has a two-unit central-staircase plan, with a central part-glazed panelled door that includes an overlight and a gabled hood supported by brackets. The ground and first floors have 16-pane sash windows with flat-arched heads, while the second floor has 6-pane sashes with wooden lintels. In front, there is a small raised garden area enclosed by 19th-century railings topped with spear finials.
Inside, timber partitions separate the hall from the adjacent rooms, and these partitions have fielded and raised panels. The basement, which is the original ground floor, features a stop-chamfered spine beam and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. A central door on the outside wall of the basement is flanked by blocked windows with wooden lintels; this door, which is likely the original front door, has four raised panels, H.L. hinges, a pegged wooden surround, and a wooden lintel. This door now leads into a cellar beneath the raised garden area, which has a brick-arched half-tunnel vault. The house is also known as Wharf House.
Local climate
Number 4 Including Garden Area Railings in Front 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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