Olde Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Olde Thatch
- WRENN ID
- sombre-brick-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Olde Thatch, 60, Denmark Road, Cottenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 453 674
- Coordinates
- 52.28619, 0.12931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Olde Thatch is a 17th-century cottage located on Denmark Road in Cottenham. It features a timber frame that is roughcast rendered on a brick sill, topped with thatched half-hipped roofs made of long straw. The main range has an original ridge stack made of gault brick. The layout includes a hall range with a lobby entry and a crosswing on the right side. The cottage is one storey and has an attic. There are two 19th-century flush frame hung sash windows with twelve panes each on either side of the lobby entry doorway, which consists of six raised and fielded panels. A fire insurance plaque is located on the gable end. The crosswing is constructed from similar materials and also has one storey and an attic, featuring a horizontal sliding sash window on the gable end. Inside, the timber framing is exposed, and the main range has two bays with abutting hearths. There is a closed truss between the crosswing and the main range.
Local climate
Olde 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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