The Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
The Thatch
- WRENN ID
- old-quoin-swift
- 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
- Cottages
- Address
- The Thatch, Chapel Road, Combs, IP14 2ER
- OS grid reference
- TM 044 553
- Coordinates
- 52.15876, 0.98759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatch is a pair of cottages that were originally built as one house, likely in the 15th or 16th century. The building has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-entry plan. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof that includes a central 19th-century red brick chimney. The windows are 19th and 20th-century casements, and each cottage has a half-glazed panelled entrance door from the 19th or 20th century. The house maintains medieval proportions and appears to have an inserted upper floor in the hall. There are large blocked and concealed fireplaces between the hall and parlour. At the time of the survey, the framing was almost entirely hidden.
Local climate
The 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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