Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-pilaster-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Munden Road, Little Munden, SG12 0LH
- OS grid reference
- TL 333 213
- Coordinates
- 51.8751, -0.06462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century or early 17th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast and a steep thatched roof. The building has a three-unit, central-chimney plan and faces west. It is one and a half storeys tall, with an eyebrow dormer at the eaves in the middle of the east side. There are two windows and a 20th-century glazed porch on the east side, along with several flush casement windows on the ground floor. The central chimney is located a third of the way from the north end, while a later central chimney has been inserted a third from the south end. Additionally, there is a 20th-century enclosed porch on the west side.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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 2014
- 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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