53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1968. House, formerly farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
53, High Street
- WRENN ID
- high-fireplace-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1968
- Type
- House, formerly farmhouse
- Address
- 53, High Street, Harpole, NN7 4BS
- OS grid reference
- SP 692 606
- Coordinates
- 52.23969, -0.98763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 High Street is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dated 1711 and altered in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone with a straw thatch roof and features brick end and ridge stacks. The building has a three-unit plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a four-window range.
The entrance is a 19th-century part-glazed door located to the left of centre, set in a pegged wood surround with a wood lintel and a 19th-century gabled porch. This door is flanked by three-light leaded casement windows, one with a stop-chamfered wood lintel to the left and the other with a stone lintel to the right, both featuring hood moulds. There is also a small low two-light stone mullion window to the right.
On the first floor, there are three-light leaded ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows to the left and centre, both with hood moulds, and a longer two-light window to the right of centre. A central gabled dormer window features a two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window and a datestone above inscribed with DF/LS/1711.
To the right, there is a lower two-storey one-bay wing that projects and has similar two-light windows on both the ground and first floors. The building is accented with quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers.
Inside, the house features ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, some ogee-stop-chamfered joists, and an open fireplace with a stop-chamfered cambered bressumer. The staircase is a dog-leg design with turned and twisted balusters and newel posts topped with round and polygonal finials.
Local climate
53, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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