Old Thatch

Old Thatch is a small house dating to around the late 17th century. It is constructed of lightly rendered limestone rubble, with the stone visible on the front of the building at ground floor level, and has a hipped thatched roof. A rendered rubble stack is located at the rear of the left-hand side. The building originally comprised two rooms, possibly with a central passage. The larger left-hand room is heated by a stack at the rear. The house is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical four-window front. The ground floor has three windows, while the first floor has two. The windows are 19th-century casements; those on the first floor are two-light, and those on the ground floor are three-light. A 20th-century plank door is positioned to the right of centre, sheltered by a 20th-century thatched porch hood supported by wooden posts. Timber lintels are present above the windows. A reused date stone, inscribed with ‘1811’, is set between the two first-floor windows on the left-hand side. The interior was inaccessible when the building was surveyed.