The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. A C17 House.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-render-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, High Wych Lane, CM21 0JN
- OS grid reference
- TL 464 144
- Coordinates
- 51.8097, 0.12238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features an irregular stepped thatched roof and faces south, with its gable end facing the road. To the east, there is a single-storey section that has a large external gable chimney. The western part, which is closer to the road, is one and a half storeys tall and has an internal gable chimneystack. The cottage has small paned casement windows and an ornamental ridge on the roof.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 2004
- No related consent applications matched
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