Briar Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. Cottage.
Briar Thatch
- WRENN ID
- scarred-facade-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Briar Thatch, 6, Spring Lane, Great Horwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 770 309
- Coordinates
- 51.97206, -0.87917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Thatch is a cottage dating from the 17th to early 18th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed plastered infill and a thatched roof, which has flanking chimneys that are roughly rendered and whitewashed. The building is 1½ storeys high and consists of two main bays.
On the ground floor, there are barred wooden casements, with a three-light window on the left and a two-light window on the right. The first floor has a similar two-light casement on the left and a paired leaded casement on the right, both beneath thatch eyebrows. A central 20th-century door is set within a timber gabled porch, and there is a single barred staircase window to the right. To the right of the main structure, there is a small lower extension that has a similar single window. The rear of the cottage includes one paired leaded casement and 20th-century extensions.
Local climate
Briar Thatch 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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