The Thatches is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
The Thatches
- WRENN ID
- lone-window-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatches, Brettenham Road, Buxhall, IP14 3DY
- OS grid reference
- TL 984 566
- Coordinates
- 52.17244, 0.9001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatches is a house dating from around 1550, with mid-20th century alterations. It has a three-cell plan that originally included a cross-entry. The building is one storey high with attics and is constructed from timber framing and plaster. The roof is covered with concrete tiles, which replaced the original thatch, and it features half-hipped ends. There is an axial chimney made of gault brick, along with two end chimneys from the 19th or 20th century. The house has large eyebrow casement dormers added in the 20th century and small-pane casements. The entrance door is boarded with a glazed panel and is sheltered by a hipped porch supported by oak posts, also covered with concrete tiles. Inside, the heavy first floors are exposed, showcasing unchamfered joists and binding beams with broad chamfers. The half-hipped end walls rest on pairs of well-formed base crucks.
Local climate
The Thatches 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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