Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1967. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-hearth-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatch Cottage, Philleigh, TR2 5LR
- OS grid reference
- SW 881 389
- Coordinates
- 50.21253, -4.97019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch Cottage consists of two adjoining cottages, originally a single house, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, with remodelling in the 19th century. The construction is of slatestone rubble and cob walls, topped with a hipped wheat reed thatched roof, and featuring a brick chimney projecting from the left side wall and a stone chimney from the right. The building has an L-shaped plan: a single-room plan cottage on the left, with a single-room rear wing, and a double-depth, single-room plan cottage to the right. The two-storey south front has four windows. The cottage on the right slightly projects forward. Doorways are positioned under the first-floor windows, number two and three, and have 20th-century boarded doors. A cambered brick arch covers the door on the right. Two ground floor windows, one on the left and one on the right, are 20th-century additions with domed thatched roofs. The first floor windows are 16-pane, two-light casements. Internally, the cottage features open beam ceilings and retains the original pine roof structure, complete with lapped, pegged collars.
Local climate
Thatch 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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