Old Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. House.
Old Thatch
- WRENN ID
- weathered-column-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Thatch, Belstone, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 618 946
- Coordinates
- 50.73455, -3.95842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Thatch is a small house built in the early to mid-19th century and modernised around 1980. It is constructed from plastered granite stone rubble and features a granite stack with a 19th-century brick top. The roof is thatched, with slate covering the outshot. The house has a three-room plan and faces southwest. An axial stack between the left and centre rooms serves back-to-back fireplaces. The left ground floor room was previously servant accommodation and does not connect with the centre room or the chamber above. There is a 20th-century kitchen extension on the right end. The main house is two storeys tall.
The exterior has a regular but asymmetrical two-window front with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars. The left end room protrudes slightly from the main house and has a 20th-century slate-roofed porch in front. The main doorway is located at the right room, which also features a 20th-century slate-roofed porch. The roof is gable-ended and hipped to the right. Inside, the house has plain carpentry details.
Local climate
Old Thatch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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