Thatcher's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. Cottage.
Thatcher's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-rubblework-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatcher's Cottage, Sissinghurst Road, Biddenden, TN27 8HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 826 385
- Coordinates
- 51.11738, 0.60865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatcher's Cottage is a probable late medieval timber-framed cottage that was refaced with weatherboarding in the 18th century. The building has two storeys and features a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof at one end. It includes two casement windows and has a 17th century brick chimney stack along with an external brick chimneystack. The cottage also has a catslide roof. The central doorcase is simple, with a flat wooden hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
Thatcher's Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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