Big Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House. 1 related planning application.
Big Thatch
- WRENN ID
- tall-gutter-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Big Thatch, North Wraxall, SN14 8RT
- OS grid reference
- ST 840 748
- Coordinates
- 51.4725, -2.23082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Big Thatch is a house dating back to the 17th century, with later 20th-century additions. It is constructed of rubble stone and has a thatched roof with coped gables and East end and ridge stacks. The house has one and a half storeys. The front of the house features three stone-tiled gables, with the left gable being a 20th-century addition. The original part of the house has ovolo-moulded recessed mullion windows with hoodmoulds; these are two-light to each gable, with a three-light and two-light window framing a gabled porch which contains a reset oak plank door. The left gable side has a thatched dormer, a gable with a two-light window, and two ground floor mullion windows, all dating to the 20th century. Older photographs indicate a small eaves dormer previously occupied the position of the left gable. The rear of the house has five thatched dormers added in the 20th century. Inside, the left side of the cross passage features a large timber lintel fireplace, and there’s a timber lintel fireplace at the north end of the house.
Local climate
Big 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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