The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1979. House.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-basalt-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Husborne Crawley
- OS grid reference
- SP 953 361
- Coordinates
- 52.01574, -0.6115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, located in Husborne Crawley. The original cottage is timber framed and sits on a rubble plinth, finished with colourwashed roughcast render. To the right, there is an 18th-century barn that has been converted for residential use, which is also timber framed, with sections of roughcast render and weatherboarding. Both structures feature thatched roofs.
The cottage has an L-plan layout and is two stories high with attics. The 17th-century section has a gable end facing the road, with 18th-century single casements on the ground floor, a 2-light casement on the first floor, and a single-light casement in the attic, all featuring glazing bars. The right-hand block includes a 3-light sash window. There is a recessed doorway in the right-hand block, which is accessed by a flight of steps. A red brick ridge stack is present on the 17th-century block.
Local climate
The Thatched 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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