Thatch Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Thatch Cottages
- WRENN ID
- south-quoin-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatch Cottages, 1 and 2, Water Lane, Ospringe, ME13 8TY
- OS grid reference
- TR 002 606
- Coordinates
- 51.30958, 0.87109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages dating to the 16th century, located in Ospringe. The cottages are timber-framed and have weatherboard cladding, with a thatched and slated roof. They are one storey high with an attic, featuring three gabled dormers on a hipped roof, and chimney stacks at the north and south ends. The front has four wooden casement windows, the central window featuring three mullioned lights. A boarded door is situated to the centre left, and a half-glazed door is in the centre, with a small light over. These cottages, together with Miller’s House, The Arbory, and numbers 1 and 2 Thatch Cottage, form a group. Historical maps from 1879 depict the cottages, although their fabric and design suggest an earlier 16th-century origin.
Local climate
Thatch Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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