Thatchcroft is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1974. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Thatchcroft
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-column-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatchcroft, 28, Helpston Road, Ailsworth, City of Peterborough, PE5 7AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 118 990
- Coordinates
- 52.57739, -0.35093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatchcroft is a 17th to 18th century cottage located on Helpston Road in Ailsworth. It is built from coursed rubble with rusticated quoins and features a thatched roof with gabled ends. The south end gable displays an inscription with the initials "CS" and a date. The cottage has one storey and attics, with a dormer at the eaves and one ground floor window fitted with modern casements. There is a ledged door and rendered lintels. To the left, there is an early 19th century wing that has a modern brick stack at its north end. At the rear, there is a modern lean-to extension. The building also has a sun fire insurance plaque.
Local climate
Thatchcroft 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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 0.3°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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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