The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. House.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-foundation-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, 50, St. Helen Without
- OS grid reference
- SP 467 004
- Coordinates
- 51.70114, -1.3244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a 17th-century house located in St. Helen Without Dry Sandford. It features a timber-framed structure built on a limestone plinth, consisting of two panels deep with arch braces. The cottage has a gabled thatch roof and stone end stacks. It follows a two-unit plan and has two storeys and an attic, with a two-window range. The central entrance has a 20th-century door and porch, and the windows are mostly from the 20th century, except for a 17th-century ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned and transomed four-light window to the right of the door. At the rear, there is a similar three-light mullioned window with leaded lights and a four-light wood-mullioned window. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered beams and a central timber-frame partition, along with a chamfered bressumer over the open fireplaces in the end walls.
Local climate
The Thatched 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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