Maypole Thatch is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. House. 25 related planning applications.
Maypole Thatch
- WRENN ID
- solitary-hearth-fog
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Maypole Thatch, Maypole Lane, Hoath
- OS grid reference
- TR 204 649
- Coordinates
- 51.34104, 1.16332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maypole Thatch is a timber-framed building dating from around 1385, with later additions. It began as a two-bay open-hall, with a third bay added subsequently. The original timber frame is filled with plaster and features diagonal braces on the first floor. The ground floor was rebuilt in red brick during the 18th century, though some close-studding remains visible. The house has a steeply-pitched hipped thatched roof with a central chimneystack, and two casement windows. Inside, you'll find two inglenook fireplaces, upright posts with jougs, and a crow post roof, incorporating one moulded octagonal-shaped post and one that has been cut down. It is designated Grade II* as a rare example of a 14th-century two-bay hall-house.
Local climate
Maypole Thatch sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 25 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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