Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-fireplace-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatch Cottage, Stoke Gabriel, TQ9 6PS
- OS grid reference
- SX 841 589
- Coordinates
- 50.41911, -3.63232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This small cottage dates from around the late 18th or early 19th century. It is built of roughcast cob and has a hipped thatched roof. The cottage is square in plan. The road-facing side features an external rendered stone chimney stack with set-offs, and a small 19th-century casement window to the right. A panelled door, protected by a 20th-century wooden hood, is located on the left-hand return. Casement windows are present on the south-facing garden front.
Local climate
Thatch Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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