Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. Cottage.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-garret-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, 1, Mason's Lane, Bradford-On-Avon
- OS grid reference
- ST 825 611
- Coordinates
- 51.34891, -2.25254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is an early to mid 19th century cottage ornée, prominently located at the top of Market Street. It is a single storey building with an attic, constructed from rubble and topped with a thatched roof. The roof features a hipped dormer that is also thatched, which includes a wooden-framed dormer window with two lights, Gothic tops, and diamond-leaded lights. The ground floor has three pairs of Gothic pointed windows with raised surrounds, also featuring diamond-leaded lights. To the left, there is a square-headed doorway with a hipped thatched porch above. On the right side, there is a lean-to thatched extension with one pointed light.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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