Walnut Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. A Tudor House.
Walnut Thatch
- WRENN ID
- iron-ember-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1990
- Type
- House
- Period
- Tudor
- Address
- Walnut Thatch, Church Road, Wenham Magna
- OS grid reference
- TM 070 380
- Coordinates
- 52.00225, 1.01547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Thatch is a house dating from the 16th century. It features an exposed timber frame at the front, with plastered returns and a red plain tiled roof. There are external red brick chimney stacks on the left and off centre to the right. The building has two storeys, with a single-storey extension on the right. It has a three-window range of 20th-century small paned casements. There is a 20th-century gabled porch with a reproduction door, and to the right of the porch is an original blocked segmental headed doorway.
Local climate
Walnut Thatch sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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