Thatches is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage. 9 related planning applications.
Thatches
- WRENN ID
- noble-brass-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatches, Rectory Lane, Kingston, CB23 2NL
- OS grid reference
- TL 345 552
- Coordinates
- 52.17919, -0.0329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatches is a cottage dating to the late 17th century, with an extension added around 1940. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a long straw thatched roof, half-hipped in shape. A prominent original ridge stack is constructed of narrow red and yellow brick. Originally a four-bay design with a lobby entry, it was extended on the south side to form a T-plan layout. The cottage has two storeys and an attic. Around 1940, lozenge-shaped leaded light casement windows were installed. The original doorway is now located within the extension wing opposite the stack. The c.1940 extension is rendered and thatched, with a gable end to the road featuring a thatched oriel window to the attic. The interior retains exposed timber framing, with tabled scarf joints to short lengths of timber within the middle rail. There are also abutting inglenook hearths.
Local climate
Thatches 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 9 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
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