Hill Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Hill Thatch
- WRENN ID
- pale-soffit-indigo
- 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
- Hill Thatch, 1, Burton End, West Wickham, CB21 4SD
- OS grid reference
- TL 620 496
- Coordinates
- 52.12162, 0.36601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Thatch is a cottage with a late 17th-century origin, extended and renovated in the mid-20th century. The cottage is timber-framed, with rendered walls and a thatched roof. It features a red brick ridge stack, and one storey with an attic space. Two eyebrow dormers are present on the north-east range. The cottage includes modern ground floor openings, and a thatched lean-to porch that leads to the original entrance.
Local climate
Hill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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
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