The Old Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Thatch
- WRENN ID
- late-wattle-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Thatch, Newborough, DE13 8SU
- OS grid reference
- SK 133 250
- Coordinates
- 52.82324, -1.80364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Thatch is a 17th-century cottage located in Newborough. It features a timber frame with a thatched roof and a plastered integral end stack. The building consists of two framed bays, with a hall in the northeast bay and two small rooms in the southwest bay, which are likely a parlour and pantry accessed from the hall. The cottage is one storey with an attic, displaying two square panels at the eaves and short straight braces. It has two casement windows, and the roof sweeps over the attic dormers. There is a central door with a rustic porch, and a low 20th-century extension is present to the left.
Inside, there is a timber-framed partition wall between the two bays and between the parlour and pantry. Both bays feature a central chamfered ceiling beam and a large open fireplace in the northeast wall of the hall. The roof structure includes queen strut roof trusses with a ridge piece and one pair of purlins, while the central truss has an interrupted tie beam.
Local climate
The Old Thatch receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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