Thatched House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Thatched House
- WRENN ID
- standing-arch-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatched House, 1, Bourn Road, Caxton, CB23 3PP
- OS grid reference
- TL 304 580
- Coordinates
- 52.20554, -0.09199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 17th-century timber-framed house, located on the north side of Caxton Bourn Road. The house is rendered with roughcast, and has a thatched roof. It features end stacks and a central ridge stack with rebuilt shafts. The house is two storeys high and follows a lobby entry plan. A central open porch provides entry via a panelled door. Four casement windows are on the ground floor, and five are on the first floor, all dating to the 20th century. The base of the walls is plastered.
Local climate
Thatched House 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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