Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage.

Thatch Cottage

WRENN ID
roaming-stronghold-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1982
Type
Cottage
Address
Thatch Cottage, High Street, Colne
OS grid reference
TL 371 758
Coordinates
52.3633, 0.01272
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thatch Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the west side of Colne High Street. It is a one-storey building with an attic, which may have been constructed in two different periods. The cottage features a rendered timber-frame and a thatched roof, complete with a central ridge stack and end stacks. There are three dormer windows with casements and three ground floor windows, one of which is a hung sash window with glazing bars. The central entrance has a four-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, framed by a moulded architrave that includes corner bosses and a cornice.

Local climate

Thatch Cottage 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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