The Willow Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
The Willow Thatch
- WRENN ID
- ruined-spindle-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Willow Thatch, 319, Birchanger Lane, CM23 5QR
- OS grid reference
- TL 512 224
- Coordinates
- 51.88005, 0.19618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Willow Thatch is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on Birchanger Lane. It features a weather-boarded plinth at the southeast end and is one storey high with attics. The house has modern casement windows and a thatched roof that is half hipped at both the northwest and southeast ends, with a gabled dormer on the front.
Local climate
The Willow Thatch sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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