Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House.

Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
moated-mortar-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
House
Address
Thatched Cottage, Meesden
OS grid reference
TL 422 330
Coordinates
51.97782, 0.07018
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, with low extensions added to the north and south in the 20th century. It features a timber frame on a black stuccoed sill, white weatherboarding, and a steep half-hipped thatched roof over the higher section, while the lower part is located by the chimney. The northern extension has a red pantiled roof, and the southern kitchen extension has a red tiled roof. The house has a long, three-cell internal chimney plan and faces east, with lower extensions to the north and south. It is 1½ storeys tall to the south of the chimney and has a short single-storey section to the north. The eastern front has two windows on each floor of the higher part and a door located near the middle. The windows are flush casement with three narrow lights, and there is a plank door. Additionally, there is a tarred oven projection on the front wall near the chimney, and similar windows are present on the western side.

Local climate

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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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