Thatcham House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. House.

Thatcham House

WRENN ID
hidden-tin-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1983
Type
House
Address
Thatcham House, Turners Drive
OS grid reference
SU 524 670
Coordinates
51.39983, -1.24771
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Thatcham House is a Gothic-style house built between 1850 and 1860. It is constructed of red brick with some black diapering and features stone window dressings, balustrades, bands, a plinth, and a parapet. The roof is plain tiled with ridge cresting, and the gables are parapetted with kneelers and finials. The house has various chimneys and an off-centre turret to the right, which has an embattled stone parapet and trefoiled window openings.

The building is two storeys high, with an attic on the right, and consists of two blocks. On the left side of the centre, there are two ground floor square bay windows topped with an unpierced quatrefoil parapet and a 10-light stone mullioned and transomed window. The first floor has three windows, with large arches above the ones on the right and left, featuring plain and fish-scaled tile hanging. The wooden casements are 6-light mullioned and transomed, with small slit openings in the gables above. A cross window is located in the centre, with a gable above that hides a hipped roof behind. The central door has a pointed arch with a moulded surround, a hood mould, and carved stops, set in a square head with quatrefoils in the spandrels.

To the right of centre, there is a two-storey bay window on the left with a quatrefoil parapet, and two gabled dormers with decorated barge boards. An embattled wall is situated to the right. A conservatory made of wood and glass is located to the left, featuring three parallel ranges, with the central one being taller. It has a central arched doorway with Gothic glazing and plain geometrical tracery in the gable above. At the rear, there is a canted stone bay window with cusped tracery and traceried panels in the embattled parapet, along with an ogee arched doorway to the left in an entrance porch that also has an embattled parapet.

Local climate

Thatcham House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. The Plough Public House Grade II 424 m
  2. The Old Bluecoat School Grade I 508 m
  3. The Prancing Horse Public House Grade II 522 m
  4. 78A, Chapel Street Grade II 586 m
  5. 66, 68, 70 and 72, Chapel Street Grade II 605 m
  6. The Old Chequers Public House Grade II 677 m
  7. 17, Chapel Street Grade II 695 m
  8. 31, The Broadway Grade II 727 m
  9. 56, The Broadway Grade II 747 m
  10. 2, Chapel Street Grade II 751 m