The Old Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1976. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Thatch
- WRENN ID
- eastward-cupola-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Thatch, Hill Lane, Weston-In-Gordano, BS20 8PY
- OS grid reference
- ST 445 743
- Coordinates
- 51.46577, -2.7996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, dating from the early 17th century, that has been substantially rebuilt and restored in the 20th century. It is constructed of rubbles with a thatched roof, featuring a ridge stack and a gable stack on the right side. The roof ridge is higher on the right. The original layout was a three-room through-passage plan, with a T-shaped form created by a rear wing. The house has two storeys and five windows, all 20th-century 2-light casements. Two eyebrow dormers are present on the right side, and the thatch has been raised over three casements on the left. The second window from the right has a 1/2-glazed door with a thatched hood, and a ridge stack is to the left of the door.
The left return originally featured a single-storey end room, now with three buttresses and a 20th-century door to the left, as well as a 20th-century plate-glass window at the first floor. The right return has a blank gable end. At the rear, there's a 20th-century French window on the left, and the roof has been extended over the rear of the passage, incorporating a 20th-century 6-pane light. The two-storey, gabled rear wing has a 2-light casement at ground floor and a 2-light casement with a chamfered mullion on the inside, with iron stanchions and a decorative catch at the first floor. A single-storey lean-to is situated along the right side, originally used as a dairy. This lean-to has a pantiled roof and features single and 2-light casements and a door to the right.
The interior includes a heavy chamfered beam in the room to the right. The room to the left has a fireplace under the ridge stack, with a stone lintel and an oven to the right. The end room to the left has a rear door with ventilation holes, leading to the former dairy.
Local climate
The Old Thatch receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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