The Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House.
The Thatch
- WRENN ID
- tenth-iron-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatch, Police Row, Therfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 338 369
- Coordinates
- 52.01519, -0.05106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatch is a house located in Therfield, dating from the early to mid 17th century, with later alterations and extensions in the 18th century and 20th century. It features a timber frame with a brick base and roughcast, along with some brick rebuilding. The house has a steeply pitched thatched roof and consists of three bays, which likely included an open hall originally. It is one storey with an attic.
On the ground floor, the entrance is situated to the right of the center, and there are one and two light flush frame casements. The attic has three two-light casements with thatched eyebrows. To the left, there is an early service addition that includes an entrance, a rebuilt brick wall, a slightly lower ridge, and a hipped roof. The left end wall has a horizontal sliding sash window. An inserted axial ridge stack is located to the left of center, while the right gable end features an early three-light diagonal mullioned window. A 20th-century outshut has been added to the right end.
Inside, the house includes a stop-chamfered binding beam, braces in the walling, jowled posts, and a clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
The Thatch 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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