Thatches

Thatches is a house with probable origins in the late 16th century, which underwent changes in the early 19th century and partly in the 20th century. It features whitewashed rendered cob and a hipped wheat-reed thatched roof, with a stack at the right end. The building has a single room on each side of a nearly central doorway, which is framed by a two-storey porch topped with a gable-ended thatched roof. The house is two storeys high and has a Gothick four-window range. The porch includes a pointed arch window with Y bars and a two-light casement above a plain pointed arch doorway, which has a buttress to the left. Inside, there is an ornate chamfered and ogee-stopped inner doorframe, leading to a half-glazed door with two panels and twelve panes above. To the left of the doorway is a single casement, while to the right are two casements, all two-light, mostly from the 20th century, above two 19th-century pointed arch windows with Y bars and 20th-century two-light casements. At the rear left end, there is a thatched outshut that was formerly a dairy. The interior has been much altered, but it is likely that the original roof timbers remain intact, showing no signs of smoke-blackening. Thatches was formerly part of a hostelry complex that included Monks Cottage and Cowlers.