Malters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1988. Cottage.
Malters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-attic-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Malters Cottage, Church End, Potterspury
- OS grid reference
- SP 761 432
- Coordinates
- 52.08223, -0.89011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maltsters Cottage is a cottage dated 1685, with 20th-century alterations. It is built of coursed limestone rubble and has a slate roof with brick end stacks. The cottage is 2-storey and features a 3-window range with a 2-unit plan. There is a 20th-century door to the left of center, which has a wooden lintel and is set in a 20th-century gabled porch. The cottage has 2-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, each with wooden lintels. Above the porch, there is a datestone inscribed with "IH/1685." The interior is noted for having spine beams.
Local climate
Malters 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 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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