The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-pewter-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, 4, Leckhamstead Road, Wicken
- OS grid reference
- SP 743 393
- Coordinates
- 52.04738, -0.91733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed with a stone base, featuring brick and limestone rubble infill, and has a thatched roof with brick stacks at the ends. The building has one storey and an attic, with a two-window range and a two-unit plan. The gable end faces the street and has brick infill, with a two-light casement window on the ground floor and a similar casement in the attic. The roof is half-hipped at this end. On the right side elevation, there is a 20th-century door and two-light casement windows on the ground floor, along with similar casements and a 20th-century extension at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Cottage 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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