Thorn Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Thorn Cottages

WRENN ID
drifting-hall-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Thorn Cottages, 2 and 3, Bude-Stratton
OS grid reference
SS 218 050
Coordinates
50.81781, -4.53022
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thorn Cottages are two cottages dating from the 18th century, possibly with earlier origins. They are whitewashed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that is gabled at both ends. The right gable end features a brick chimney, along with an additional brick chimney on the ridge. The cottages have a single depth plan and are two storeys high, with a two-window range. There are 20th-century front doors beneath slated canopies. The ground floor has four 20th-century two-light timber casements with glazing bars, with the central pair being smaller and having three panes per light. The thatch is eyebrowed over two similar windows on the first floor. Inside the right-hand cottage, there are exposed ceiling beams.

Local climate

Thorn Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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