Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. House.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-timber-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Walkern Road, Benington
- OS grid reference
- TL 292 207
- Coordinates
- 51.87071, -0.12463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is an early 19th-century house that incorporates older framework. It features a timber frame on a stucco plinth, is dark weatherboarded, and has a steep thatched roof. This picturesque single-storey house is set back from the road and faces west. It has four windows and a boarded door, with 2-light flush casement windows. There is a gabled dormer at the eaves above the second window from the north, and two small central chimneys.
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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
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