Meldreth Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage.
Meldreth Thatch
- WRENN ID
- strange-entrance-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Meldreth Thatch, 3, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 376 451
- Coordinates
- 52.08769, 0.00834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meldreth Thatch is a cottage located on Station Road in Meldreth, dating from the late 17th century. The building features a timber frame, is rendered, and has a half-hipped roof covered with long straw thatch. It has a ridge stack and a later end stack. Originally, the cottage was a single range with a lobby entry plan facing the road. It is one storey high with an attic, and there are two dormers on the south side and one on the north side. The original doorway for the lobby entry remains, while other openings have been replaced with mid to late 20th-century small pane casements. At the east end, there is a two-storey crosswing added in the mid-20th century, which is also thatched.
Local climate
Meldreth 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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