Old Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Thatch
- WRENN ID
- idle-eave-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Thatch, 16, High Street, Chalgrove, OX44 7SR
- OS grid reference
- SU 633 971
- Coordinates
- 51.66989, -1.08602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century house situated on the south side of Chalgrove High Street. It is constructed with light timber framing and has a gabled thatch roof, with a brick end stack. The house follows a two-unit outshut plan and is two storeys high, arranged as a symmetrical two-window range. The house now has 20th-century doors and casement windows. Inside, there are chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. There’s an open fireplace with a late 17th-century cupboard to the right, flanked by a quarter-turn staircase and a blocked wood-mullioned window with an internal shutter.
Local climate
Old Thatch 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- 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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