The Old Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Thatch
- WRENN ID
- pale-thatch-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Thatch, Peasenhall Road, Walpole, IP19 9BQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 365 737
- Coordinates
- 52.31084, 1.4688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Thatch is a 16th-century cottage located on Peasenhall Road, Walpole. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, and has a half-hipped thatched roof. The building is single-storey with an attic, and originally comprised three rooms. It features mid-20th century casement windows with diamond-leaded panes, along with two segmental-headed dormers. A cross passage provides entry, leading to a mid-20th century boarded and battened door and an open thatched porch supported by rustic timber posts. An internal stack is present. Inside, an original plank and muntin partition is visible against the cross passage, and two ground floor rooms retain exposed joists.
Local climate
The Old Thatch sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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