Barn Elms Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage.
Barn Elms Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-column-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Barn Elms Cottage, 2, High Street, Eydon
- OS grid reference
- SP 542 501
- Coordinates
- 52.14657, -1.20862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barn Elms Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is built of coursed ironstone rubble with a tiled roof and brick stacks, forming an L-plan structure. The cottage has two storeys and is constructed in a two-bay cruck style. The doorway in the second bay from the right features a wood lintel, a half-glazed door, and a gabled timber hood supported by brackets. On either side of the doorway are 2-light casement windows with wood lintels, and there are also 2-light casement windows with wood lintels on the first floor. A blocked 2-light stone mullioned window is located on the right side of the first floor. To the left, there is a gabled extension made of similar materials, which is two storeys high and one bay wide, featuring 20th-century windows. Inside, one blade of the cruck is exposed on the ground floor, while the first floor has two blades and a tie beam. It is noted that the timbers on the left side are blackened by smoke from a former central hearth.
Local climate
Barn Elms 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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