The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1976. Cottage.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-spire-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Harford Gate, Gedney
- OS grid reference
- TF 406 228
- Coordinates
- 52.78446, 0.08384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a mid-18th century cottage made of rendered red brick and topped with a thatched roof featuring a decorative ridge. It has two gable stacks and rendered coped gables, and it is set on a plinth. The cottage is a single storey plus attic and consists of three bays. In the center, there is a glazed and wooden lean-to, while on either side, there are single two-light segmental arched casements. The attic includes a single eyebrow dormer with a single casement.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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