Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. A C18 Cottage.
Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-pedestal-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gate Cottage, Badby
- OS grid reference
- SP 563 589
- Coordinates
- 52.22604, -1.17655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gate Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that was remodeled in the Gothick style in the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and has an asbestos tile roof with brick stacks at each end. The cottage features a one-unit plan and is two stories high with a single window range.
On the left side, there is a single-storey wing with a plank door and a timber lintel, topped by a lean-to slate roof. The symmetrical wing on the right side has a blocked door with a timber lintel. The gabled center of the cottage has 2-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, which have pointed arch heads and frames that imitate Y-tracery. A later single-storey extension is located at the rear.
Inside, there is an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and a stop-chamfered spine beam. Historically, this cottage served as the gate-keeper's residence for the gate to the lane that runs in front of it, and the post from which the gate hung is still present on the opposite side of the road.
Local climate
Gate Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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