Little Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Little Thatch
- WRENN ID
- sharp-portal-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Thatch, 21, Church Street, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1DB
- OS grid reference
- ST 786 139
- Coordinates
- 50.92499, -2.30445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Thatch is a 17th-century cottage located on Church Street in Sturminster Newton. The building features squared rubble construction and a thatched roof with a gable end and an end brick stack. It has an L-plan layout with a rear wing and a 20th-century outshut that includes a front door on the right side. The ground floor openings are set under segmental stone arches, and the windows are wooden casements with two and three lights, all featuring glazing bars. Inside, there is a fireplace with a timber bressummer and chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Little Thatch receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 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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