The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
fading-rafter-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 June 1987
Type
House
Address
The Thatched Cottage, Smith End, Barley
OS grid reference
TL 400 377
Coordinates
52.02072, 0.03989
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

House. Dating back to the 16th century, it was altered in the 17th century and then refronted, extended, and altered in the 20th century. The house is timber-framed, with weatherboard cladding and red brick refronting. It has thatched roofs, incorporating some pantiles. Originally, it was likely a small single-ended hall house. It now consists of 3 hall bays, one storey plus attic, with a 2-bay, 2-storey crosswing to the right. The front has 20th-century casement windows, and there is one dormer window within the steeply pitched thatch. A 17th-century ridge stack is located to the left of the centre. The crosswing to the right has a taller ridge and a steeply pitched gable with a small-paned casement window. Projecting forwards is a pantiled lean-to addition, featuring a 2-light casement and an entrance in the left return. The right return of the wing has a horizontal sliding sash window and casements, with a half-hip to the rear. A later 2-storey wing to the left front has a hipped roof and scattered casement windows, plus an eyebrow dormer. Inside, the framing is exposed, though altered and partially rebuilt, with curved tension braces, jowled posts with arched braces to cambered tie beams, and curved windbraces.

Local climate

The 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% 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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  • Sale history — 11 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • 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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