Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1983. Cottage.
Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-roof-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatch Cottage, Waldringfield Road, Martlesham
- OS grid reference
- TM 264 462
- Coordinates
- 52.06869, 1.30203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage constructed of colour-washed brick with a thatched roof. It features an outshut with a pantiled roof and a central brick stack that has two square chimneys set diagonally. The cottage is one storey high and includes eyebrow dormers. There are two windows, which are casements with glazing bars, and moulded brick drip moulds above them. The entrance is located at the rear on the left-hand side, featuring a pitched canopy supported by brackets and covered with wood shingles, along with a plain boarded door. The rear of the cottage has scattered fenestration, primarily consisting of 20th-century casements.
Local climate
Thatch Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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