The Thatched House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1987. House.
The Thatched House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-cellar-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched House, the Street, Ketteringham
- OS grid reference
- TG 159 032
- Coordinates
- 52.58405, 1.18592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched House is a 16th-century timber-framed house that has been rendered and colourwashed, featuring a half-hipped thatched roof. The building consists of two cells with a central chimney bay and an additional timber-framed cell to the left. It is one storey high with an attic. A full-height stair turret, added around 1930, is located at the front of the chimney bay and is made of colourwashed brick with a thatched roof. The axial stack was rebuilt in the 18th century and includes oversailing and a sawtooth cornice.
The facade facing the road to the north has small casement windows with glazing bars in each bay. The left and right returns feature swept half dormers that follow the hips of the roof. The right return has a 19th-century lean-to constructed of clay lump and part brick facing, topped with pantiles. The left return has two adjacent casements with glazing bars. The stair turret has a gable and a tall stair casement window with glazing bars, along with a doorway to the left return that is sheltered by a thatched canopy.
At the rear, the first cell has a two-light casement window, while the second cell features a French window with glazing bars and a fixed light with glazing bars consisting of three panes by three panes to the right, along with a dormer in the attic. Inside, some timber framing is visible, including sole plates and wall plates, along with some infill of wattle and daub, and a collarless roof.
Local climate
The Thatched House 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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