Dove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Dove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-cinder-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dove Cottage, Church Street, Sulgrave, OX17 2RP
- OS grid reference
- SP 557 453
- Coordinates
- 52.10351, -1.18713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Church Street in Sulgrave. It is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble and features a slate roof with brick and stone stacks. The cottage has two storeys and two bays. The central doorway has a 20th-century glazed door and a wood lintel that extends to the right over a 20th-century metal casement window. To the left, there is a three-light window with a wood lintel and an old iron casement. On the first floor, there are two-light casement windows with wood lintels. There is an extension to the left that dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, which is not considered of special architectural interest. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered spine beams, an open fireplace with an 18th or 19th-century timber mantel shelf, and the original timber bressumer remains behind.
Local climate
Dove 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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 — 11 transactions since 1995
- 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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