Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House.
Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-spindle-rain
- 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
- Thatch Cottage, Hormead
- OS grid reference
- TL 390 295
- Coordinates
- 51.94692, 0.02148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch Cottage is a house from the 18th century, built with a timber frame set on a black stuccoed plinth and covered with roughcast. It features a steep half-hipped thatch roof and has a gable facing the road. The building is 1 ½ storeys high and consists of two cells, following an internal chimney plan. It faces south and has single-storey, flat-roofed extensions added in the 20th century to the rear and east end. The entrance includes a battened plank door with a diamond-shaped cut. To the right of the door, there are two-light flush casement windows, and one window is located on each storey of the west gable facing the road. A single flue chimney is positioned near the east end.
Local climate
Thatch 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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