Old Thatches is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Thatches
- WRENN ID
- nether-minaret-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Thatches, Rushden, SG9 0SH
- OS grid reference
- TL 304 315
- Coordinates
- 51.96693, -0.1023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Thatches is a house dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It has a timber frame and is covered with weatherboarding, topped by a thatched roof. The building is arranged in a square plan with three bays by three bays and stands two storeys high. The central gabled porch is flanked by a mix of one and two-light casement windows, along with a small horizontal sliding sash window on the first floor. The roof features deep eaves and has an almost pyramidal hipped shape, with a rebuilt central ridge stack. To the left, there is a catslide roof over a lean-to outshut, and the left return has a horizontal sliding sash window on the first floor at the rear. On the right return, the ground floor includes a rendered lean-to addition with a horizontal sliding sash window, while the first floor features one leaded casement and two horizontal sliding sash windows.
Local climate
Old Thatches 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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