Thatches is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Thatches
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-solder-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatches, Hillside Lane, Great Amwell, Ware, SG12 9SG
- OS grid reference
- TL 371 122
- Coordinates
- 51.79228, -0.01257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatches is a small house located in Great Amwell village, dating from the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a gabled thatched roof. This charming single-storey T-shaped house faces west and features an open thatched verandah on the south side supported by rough-hewn beams. On the west side, there is a canted bay window with a moulded wooden frame, and the thatch extends over it. A tall reticulated terracotta chimney pot adds to its picturesque appearance. The house is considered a cottage ornee. There is a modern linked extension at the rear on the east side, which is not of special interest. Thatches forms a group with Glebe House, the former Vicarage.
Local climate
Thatches sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
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