Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-solder-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Roe Green, Sandon, SG9 0QG
- OS grid reference
- TL 315 338
- Coordinates
- 51.98767, -0.08594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a 17th-century house that has been altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast and rendered walls and has a half hipped thatched roof. The building is one storey with an attic and has a two-cell lobby entry. The central entrance is flanked by six-light flush frame transomed casements. There is a central ridge stack with two flues, attic casements on the left end, and a lean-to addition on the right end. A tiled catslide roof has been added over the lean-to outshut at the rear.
Local climate
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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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