Limberhurst Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage.
Limberhurst Thatch
- WRENN ID
- tilted-balcony-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Limberhurst Thatch, Haverhill Road, Horseheath
- OS grid reference
- TL 634 470
- Coordinates
- 52.09772, 0.3844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Limberhurst Thatch is a cottage dating from the early 17th century, with extensions added in the late 17th to 18th centuries. The building features a timber-framed structure that is rendered and topped with long straw thatch, which has half-hipped ends on both the east and west sides. A ridge stack is present. The south side extension has created an L-shaped plan, connecting to the original single-range, three-bay cottage. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and it includes two eyebrow dormers. There are three modern casement windows on either side of the baffle entry doorway. The south side extension, dating from the 18th to 19th century, is also framed, rendered, and thatched, featuring an end stack.
Local climate
Limberhurst Thatch sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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