Little Thatch Rose Cottage the Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Little Thatch Rose Cottage the Post Office
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-steeple-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Thatch Rose Cottage the Post Office, Main Street, Water Stratford, MK18 5DU
- OS grid reference
- SP 651 344
- Coordinates
- 52.00453, -1.05175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Thatch Rose Cottage and the Post Office is a range of three cottages, formerly four, located on the east side of Main Street in Water Stratford. They date from the late 18th century to early 19th century and are constructed of brick, with the end cottages being colour-washed. The cottages feature thatch roofs and are two storeys high.
The windows are irregular casements. Rose Cottage, positioned at a slight angle to the others, has doors beneath flat glass hoods supported by metal brackets in the outer bays, paired leaded casements in the centre and right of the ground floor, and a first floor that includes a central two-light casement and a three-light casement with a central leaded pane to the right. Little Thatch has a central boarded door under an arched metal hood with scalloped edging, modern metal casements on the ground floor, and an old four-light casement on the first floor with three leaded panes. The Post Office features a central glazed and barred door, with two-light leaded casements flanking it on both floors.
Local climate
Little Thatch Rose Cottage the Post Office sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- 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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