Manor Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Manor Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pilaster-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Manor Thatch Cottage, Thorncombe, TA20 4NL
- OS grid reference
- ST 343 025
- Coordinates
- 50.81919, -2.93343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Thatch Cottage is an 18th-century detached cottage located at right-angles to the lane. It features rubble walls that are roughcast and a thatch roof with block ridging. There are brick stacks at each gable. The cottage is 1½ storeys high and has a range of four windows. The wooden casements are halved by a glazing-bar and have completely intact small square leaded lights. The entrance includes a 20th-century studded plank door with a thatch canopy above. Inside, there is a deep-chamfered ceiling beam and an open fireplace that includes a bread oven.
Local climate
Manor Thatch Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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