Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1991. Cottage.

Thatch Cottage

WRENN ID
dreaming-wicket-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1991
Type
Cottage
Address
Thatch Cottage, South Petherwin
OS grid reference
SX 312 825
Coordinates
50.61814, -4.38653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thatch Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century, with a 19th-century outbuilding that was converted in the 20th century. The building is made of rendered stone rubble and features a thatched roof with gabled and hipped ends. There is a large rendered chimney stack on the right gable end. The cottage has a small two-room plan, with a later range adjoining on the left at an obtuse angle. This adjoining range was formerly an outbuilding, likely used as stables and a linkway (barn).

The cottage is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window range, plus three windows in the converted outbuilding to the left. The windows are 19th and 20th-century casements with one and two lights, featuring glazing bars and slate cills. To the left of the centre, there is a large 20th-century thatched porch with glazed double doors. The converted outbuilding projects on the left at an obtuse angle and has three 20th-century casements on the front. A small stream runs along the back of the house, which has no rear extensions, and there are various small casements on the rear elevation.

Inside, the right-hand room has a large slate rubble fireplace with an unchamfered cambered timber lintel and a cloam oven. There are no main beams, but there are roughly chamfered, closely spaced cross-joists. The roof space is not accessible, but straight principal rafters set on wall tops are visible in the first-floor rooms.

Local climate

Thatch Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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