Old Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1975. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Old Thatch
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-chalk-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Thatch, 4, Newport Road, Old Woughton, MK6 3BS
- OS grid reference
- SP 875 378
- Coordinates
- 52.03229, -0.72475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Thatch is a cottage from the 18th century located on the west side of Newport Road in Woughton on the Green. It is constructed of buff brick and features a thatched roof, which includes a small two-light dormer on the right-hand side. The cottage has flanking brick chimneys, with the left-hand chimney being in a half-hipped end, stepped, and projecting. The building is two stories tall with an attic. There is a door in an open thatched porch to the right of the center, and to the left, there are two two-light casement windows with flat arches. Additionally, there is a one-storey tiled extension on the right-hand side.
Local climate
Old Thatch 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 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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