Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Residential.
Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-span-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Thatch Cottage, Brandise Hill, Petrockstow
- OS grid reference
- SS 514 086
- Coordinates
- 50.85833, -4.11146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch Cottage is a house that was originally two cottages, dating from the early 18th century, with a 19th-century addition and 20th-century alterations. The building features rendered cob and rubble walls and a thatched roof that is hipped to the right and gabled at the left end. There are two brick stacks, one axial and one at the left gable end.
The original layout likely consisted of two cottages, each with a two-room plan, but it now comprises two rooms. The left-hand room is heated by a fireplace in its end wall, while the right-hand room, which used to have two rooms, is heated by an axial stack. The former outbuilding at the left end has been converted as part of the 19th-century addition.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front featuring two windows, which are later 20th-century diamond-leaded pane casements, one and two-light. There is a 20th-century stable-type door to the left of centre and a lower addition at the left-hand end.
Inside, the cottage has open fireplaces with high unchamfered wooden lintels.
Local climate
Thatch Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings