Blemheim Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage.
Blemheim Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-dormer-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blemheim Cottage, 16, High Street, Eydon
- OS grid reference
- SP 542 501
- Coordinates
- 52.14724, -1.20848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blenheim Cottage is a row of three cottages located on Eydon High Street, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, but reconstructed in the early 20th century. The cottages are built from coursed squared ironstone and coursed rubble, topped with a fish-scale tile roof and featuring brick stacks. The layout is L-shaped.
No. 18, which faces the street, is a single storey with an attic and has two bays. It features a central doorway with a wooden lintel and a four-panel door, with three-light casement windows on either side. There are gabled half dormers with two-light casements. The right gable end is coped with kneelers, and there is a stone plaque on the right side that reads "burnt down 1905."
At the rear is Blenheim Cottage, which is two storeys with two bays. Its entrance is on the right side of No. 18 and includes a wooden lintel and a plank door. To the right, there is a three-light stone mullioned window with a moulded frame and no hood, along with similar two-light windows in the right bay and on the first floor.
No. 14, located to the right, is also two storeys with two bays. Its entrance is to the left of centre, featuring a wooden lintel and a four-panel part-glazed door. It has two-light windows on either side with wooden lintels, and similar windows are present on the first floor. All windows have 20th-century wooden casements.
The cottages were damaged by a fire along the east side of High Street in 1905 and are included for their group value.
Local climate
Blemheim 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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