Melita Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Melita Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-lime-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Melita Cottage, 5, Grafton Road, Yardley Gobion, NN12 7UE
- OS grid reference
- SP 765 448
- Coordinates
- 52.09707, -0.88441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melita Cottage is a Grade II listed building located on Grafton Road in Yardley Gobion. This cottage, which was originally part of a row of three cottages, dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof with brick stacks at each end. The cottage is two stories high and has a three-window range, with originally one-unit plans.
The central entrance has a part-glazed plank door set within a 20th-century porch, flanked by blocked doors, both with wooden lintels. The cottage has two-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, all featuring wooden lintels. The windows on the first floor are located in eyebrow dormers, while the windows to the left of the center have cast-iron lattice casements. There is also a 20th-century single-storey, two-window extension on the right end.
Inside, the cottage includes chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a cambered chamfered bressumer.
Local climate
Melita Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2008
- 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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