The Thatched House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Cottage.
The Thatched House
- WRENN ID
- silver-floor-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched House, Station Road, Fransham
- OS grid reference
- TF 893 133
- Coordinates
- 52.68438, 0.79962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched House is a cottage that was originally a lobby entrance type farmhouse, dating from the mid-17th century. It features a rendered timber frame and a thatched roof. The building is one storey high with an attic, and it has 19th or 20th century casement windows with glazing bars, including one dormer window at the front and one at the rear. The entrance has a modern porch and is located opposite an off-centre axial stack, with a later gable-end stack also present. There is a lean-to side addition. Inside, there are ogee and nicked chamfer stops on two spinal and one transverse bridging joists, as well as on the fireplace bressumer. One queen post truss remains intact.
Local climate
The Thatched House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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