Mellow Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Mellow Thatch
- WRENN ID
- grim-merlon-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mellow Thatch, Rockbourne
- OS grid reference
- SU 113 183
- Coordinates
- 50.96476, -1.84031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mellow Thatch is a cottage dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of rendered cob and features a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high and has two bays, with a 20th-century low thatch addition at one end. Both floors have 20th-century two-light casement windows with shutters. The entrance is located in the addition, which was formerly situated between the bays. The roof is half-hipped at the road end and hipped at the far end, with a stack positioned between the bays. This cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Mellow Thatch receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2003
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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