Little Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. Cottage.
Little Thatch
- WRENN ID
- still-rampart-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Thatch, 5, Church Walk, Motcombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 849 252
- Coordinates
- 51.02649, -2.21548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Thatch is a cottage, likely built in the late 18th century. It features a brick facade in Flemish bond with some flared headers, ashlar quoins, and rubble side walls. The roof is thatched, with a gabled left side and a half-hipped right side, and there is a brick stack at one end. The rear slope of the roof continues down as a tiled cat-slide. The first floor displays diamond patterns made from vitrified bricks. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows. The ground floor openings are topped with segmental brick heads that have stone keystones. The windows are 18th-century casements with leaded lights. There is a 20th-century open, gabled porch with a plain plank door.
Local climate
Little Thatch receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
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