The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1982. Cottage.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-casement-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, 31, New Road, Barton
- OS grid reference
- TL 408 559
- Coordinates
- 52.18372, 0.05946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with mid-20th century alterations. It is timber-framed, plaster rendered, and thatched, featuring a ridge stack. The original layout has been modified due to later enlargements. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with two gables above two casement windows. The ground floor includes a door, a bread oven, and a three-light window. There are pantiled lean-tos on each gable end. A rear wing, added in the mid-20th century by a former Clerk of Works to Trinity College, Cambridge, is also timber-framed, plaster rendered, and thatched, with similar small pane casements. Inside, the timber framing and baking oven are exposed, along with slender roof trusses.
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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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