Thatches is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. House.
Thatches
- WRENN ID
- guardian-hinge-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatches, 1, Bickleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 941 071
- Coordinates
- 50.8541, -3.50573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatches is a house, probably from the 18th century, located in Bickleigh. The building is whitewashed and rendered, featuring a thatched roof that is hipped at the right end. It has an axial stack with brick shafts on the right end. The layout is a single depth plan with two main heated rooms on the right and an entrance on the left leading into a narrow room. The house has a flying freehold with an adjacent property on the left that has a first floor projecting over the ground floor of Thatches. It is positioned end on to the street.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has two windows. The front door is located to the left and has a timber lintel, with an additional door leading into the right-hand room. The windows are two-light timber casements, each with two panes per light.
Inside, the fireplace in the axial stack features a chamfered lintel with run-out stops and includes a bread oven. The right-hand room has a chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops. The roof space has not been inspected.
Local climate
Thatches 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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