The Thatched House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. Cottage.

The Thatched House

WRENN ID
hushed-transept-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
The Thatched House, Thompson
OS grid reference
TL 918 967
Coordinates
52.53468, 0.82663
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Thatched House is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one dwelling, dating from the mid-18th century. The structure features a mix of timber framing, flint, and rendered brick, topped with thatched roofs. It is one storey high with a dormer attic. The ground floor has renewed casement windows in their original openings, with the eastern cottage showcasing painted segmental brick arches. There is a buttress located to the left of the centre. The building has four gabled dormers with bargeboards and corrugated tiles, each containing casements. The roofs are gabled, with the eastern side being higher. A central and an internal west gable stack are present. Additionally, there is a late 18th-century brick outshut at the eastern front, and a thatched gabled outbuilding adjoins the eastern wall.

Local climate

The Thatched House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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