The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. A Georgian Cottage.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- north-pier-mist
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Station Road, Badminton
- OS grid reference
- ST 804 823
- Coordinates
- 51.53944, -2.28371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is an estate cottage built around 1750 by Thomas Wright of Durham. It features a rendered exterior and a hipped thatched roof that overhangs and sweeps down to create a pentice, supported by arch-braced rustic timber piers, forming an 'umbrello'. The cottage is designed in the Gothick cottage orne style and consists of a single storey with attics accessed through dormers that are cut out of the thatch.
On the ground floor, there are four windows and a central door, while each elevation of the attic has a single window. The windows are 3- and 2-light casements with depressed ogee-headed tracery and diamond and square lead glazing patterns. The central door also features depressed ogee-headed tracery, and the two taller timber uprights of the pentice create a porch with a thatched roof positioned below the attic window. There is a single-storey thatched extension at the north end. This cottage is an early example of the cottage orne style and is considered one of Wright's most significant works for the 4th Duke of Beaufort during the period from 1748 to 1756.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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