56, Upper High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. House.
56, Upper High Street
- WRENN ID
- rooted-plinth-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 56, Upper High Street, Harpole
- OS grid reference
- SP 692 611
- Coordinates
- 52.2446, -0.98689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Upper High Street is a house that was originally a farmhouse, built in the early 18th century with later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and features a slate roof, with a brick stack on the right and a stone stack on the left. It has a three-unit plan and is two stories high with a four-window range. To the left of the center, there is a double-leaf, part-glazed door that has a stop-chamfered wood lintel above it. The ground and first floors are fitted with three-light casement windows, all of which have similar lintels. The house has quoins and chamfered stone eaves at the gables. On the first floor at the rear and right side, there are one-light windows with moulded stone surrounds and hood moulds. A 19th-century wing extends to the rear right, and a 20th-century wing extends to the rear left. Inside, the property features chamfered spine beams and an open well staircase with barley-sugar balusters.
Local climate
56, Upper High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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