Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-marble-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Ickleford, SG5 3TU
- OS grid reference
- TL 185 325
- Coordinates
- 51.9788, -0.27607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier, with northern extensions added in the 1980s. The building features an exposed timber frame with plastered panels and has a steeply pitched thatched roof with a decorative ridge. It is a two-storey, two-bay structure with the entrance located in the gable facing south. The south end includes a two-light casement window on the first floor and a three-light casement window on the ground floor to the left of the door. There is an external chimney on the west side in the south bay, and a wide projection on the east side in the same bay, which is covered by a catslide continuation of the roof.
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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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