The Old Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
far-copper-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Milton Keynes
Constituency
Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 February 1984
Type
House
Address
The Old Thatched Cottage, 6, High Street, Stoke Goldington, MK16 8NR
OS grid reference
SP 838 485
Coordinates
52.12908, -0.77653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Thatched Cottage is a house, originally a pair of cottages, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of rubblestone and features a thatched roof. The building has four bays and is one and a half storeys high. It includes paired casement windows, with the eaves breaking over the first-floor windows. A central brick stack is present, along with one-storey thatched lean-to wings.

Local climate

The Old Thatched Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
  • 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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