Low Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Low Thatch
- WRENN ID
- plain-corner-rain
- 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
- Low Thatch, 40, High Street, West Wratting, CB21 5LU
- OS grid reference
- TL 606 520
- Coordinates
- 52.14338, 0.34589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Thatch is an 18th-century cottage located on the north-east side of West Wratting High Street. The building has a timber frame with plaster rendering and a long straw thatched roof. A single flue ridge stack is present. Originally built with a lobby entry plan, the entrance door has since been moved to the north-west end. Small, modern casement windows have been inserted into the original window openings.
Local climate
Low 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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