Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1973. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-transept-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Orpington MP: Gareth Bacon (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, 249, Crofton Road, BR6 8JE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 439 657
- Coordinates
- 51.3725, 0.06728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a pair of 18th century cottages located on Crofton Road in Orpington. The buildings are two storeys high, featuring a weatherboarded first floor and a brick ground floor, topped with a thatched roof. There are two outside chimney stacks and two 19th century casement windows. The cottages also have later porches added to their entrances.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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