Little Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Little Thatch
- WRENN ID
- errant-tin-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Thatch, 5, the Moor, Melbourn, SG8 6ED
- OS grid reference
- TL 385 450
- Coordinates
- 52.08673, 0.02034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Thatch is an 18th-century cottage, extended by one bay. It is timber-framed, with plaster rendering and a reed thatched roof. A grey brick ridge stack is located on the single bay plan, extended to the left by a narrower bay. The cottage features a doorway leading to a lobby-entry, and one three-light casement window. Dr. D. Mills's work, "Quality of Life in Melbourn, Cambs. in the period 1300-50", provides historical context.
Local climate
Little Thatch 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings