Little Thatch

Little Thatch is a house dating from the 17th century, possibly extended in the 18th or 19th century, with further extensions in the 20th century. It is constructed from dressed and coursed stone rubble with red brick dressings and features a thatched roof with half-hipped and gabled ends. The building has brick axial and gable end stacks, with the right stack having been rebuilt at the time of inspection in 1996.

The house has a two-room plan, with the larger right-hand (east) room containing a gable-end fireplace. There is a late 20th-century one-bay extension on the left (west) end, and the left bay, now at the center, may have been added in the 18th or 19th century.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and presents an asymmetrical three-window south front, where the left bay is a 20th-century addition. The windows are three-light casements set in brick surrounds with cambered arches, and there are attic windows located under eyebrow eaves. The central doorway, also in a brick surround with a cambered arch, features a plank door and a slate canopy. The right (east) gable has a small one-light ovolo-moulded wooden window, and at the rear, there is a three-light ovolo-moulded wooden window, both with leaded panes and timber lintels. A quoin on the rear northeast corner has a graffito of a face and the date 1808 inscribed.

Inside, the right-hand room has a roughly chamfered axial beam and a large fireplace with chamfered dressed stone jambs and a chamfered timber lintel. The oven has been rebuilt, and there are winder stairs in a turret beside the stack. The only early joinery present is a fielded two-panel door on the ground floor between the two rooms. The roof structure features butt-purlins.