Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-entrance-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatch Cottage, Wises Lane, Borden, ME9 8LP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 883 631
- Coordinates
- 51.33609, 0.70305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch Cottage is a 17th-century house located on Wise's Lane in Borden. It features a timber frame set on a flint plinth, with parts of the structure exposed and plaster infill, while other sections are clad in painted brick. The cottage has a thatched roof and stands two storeys high, with a hipped roof and chimney stacks positioned to the centre left and to the right. The windows are irregularly arranged, with six wooden casements on the first floor and five on the ground floor, which have gauged heads on the right side. There is a plank and stud door located in a gabled porch on the centre left.
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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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