20, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1968. House. 2 related planning applications.
20, High Street
- WRENN ID
- fossil-clay-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton South MP: Mike Reader (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20, High Street, Billing, NN3 9DT
- OS grid reference
- SP 811 627
- Coordinates
- 52.25703, -0.81241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 20 on High Street is a Grade II* listed building, dated 1703 and slightly altered. It is constructed of dressed ironstone and features a plinth and boated chamfered quoins. The building has two storeys and attics, with a first-floor band and an old tiled roof that has gable end coping on kneelers.
The west gable displays two windows on each floor, featuring leaded casements set in moulded stone surrounds with sill mouldings and small cornices. A date stone is located under a similar cornice in the center of the gable above the attic windows. The north front has an oval leaded window on each floor, adorned with quadrant key blocks.
The south front is five windows wide, with upper two-light leaded casements that have cill mouldings, cornices, and moulded stone mullions. The central doorway is framed by a stone architrave surround under a cornice, flanked by modern stone mullioned three-light casement windows that replace the 19th-century six-light wood mullioned shop windows.
Local climate
20, High Street 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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 — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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