The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- salt-cornice-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, High Street, Bury, PE26 2NQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 283 840
- Coordinates
- 52.43919, -0.11313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is an early 17th century cottage located on Bury High Street, featuring a gable end facing the road. The building consists of two bays and a fire bay, constructed with a timber frame and topped with a thatched half-hipped roof, which includes a ridge stack. It has two storeys and an attic, with two late 18th century or early 19th century hung sash windows and two modern windows on the gable end. Inside, the cottage showcases a moulded main beam in the room and thickened jowls on the posts.
Local climate
The Thatched 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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