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

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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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