Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House.
Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-cornice-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatch Cottage, Lewson Street, Norton, Buckland and Stone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 964 613
- Coordinates
- 51.31697, 0.81765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It has a timber frame that is exposed, with plaster and painted brick infill on the ground floor, and weatherboarding on the first floor. The cottage features a thatched roof and has a lobby entry plan. It stands two storeys high with a continuous jetty supported by brackets and a hipped roof that has a stack positioned to the centre left. The windows are irregularly arranged, with three wooden casements on each floor, and there is a boarded door located to the centre left. Additionally, there is a catslide outshot extending to the left and rear of the building.
Local climate
Thatch 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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