Old Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1985. House.
Old Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-cobble-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Thatched Cottage, Veryan
- OS grid reference
- SW 921 400
- Coordinates
- 50.22391, -4.91529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Thatched Cottage is a house, possibly originally a farmhouse, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of painted stone rubble and cob, topped with a water reed thatched roof and features brick chimneys at the gable ends. The building has a two-room central stair plan and stands two storeys high. The symmetrical south front has three windows and a central door, with a 20th-century porch added. The ground floor has 16-pane, 2-light casements, while the first floor features 12-pane, 2-light casements, all with wooden lintels. There is a small buttress on the left side and a rectangular stair turret at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Old Thatched Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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