Danver's Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Danver's Thatch

WRENN ID
tattered-wattle-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bedford
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 August 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Danver's Thatch, Staploe, PE19 5JB
OS grid reference
TL 143 608
Coordinates
52.23364, -0.32654
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Danver's Thatch is a 17th-century cottage located in Staploe and Duloe. It features a timber frame with rough cast infill and a thatched roof. The building has a two-bay plan and stands two storeys high. On the south elevation, the ground floor includes one four-light casement window with wooden mullions and one two-light casement window. The first floor has two single-light casement windows with glazing bars. There is a plank door located under an open gabled porch on the left-hand side. A red brick gable end stack is also positioned on the left. To the left, there is a color-washed and thatched addition with a red brick gable end stack.

Local climate

Danver's Thatch sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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