The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 Cottage.

The Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
rough-pillar-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
The Thatched Cottage, Sharpenhoe Road, Streatley
OS grid reference
TL 073 281
Coordinates
51.94186, -0.4404
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Thatched Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Sharpenhoe Road in Streathley. The cottage features a whitewashed brick facade, while the rest of the structure is timber-framed with whitewashed brick nogging. It has one storey and attics, topped with a thatched roof that is half-lapped to the right. The exterior includes two casement windows with glazing bars and two gabled dormers. Additionally, there is a bracketed gabled doorhood over the entrance.

Local climate

The Thatched 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 80% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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