Old Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Old Thatch
- WRENN ID
- eastward-obsidian-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Thatch, Dinton-With-Ford and Upton, HP17 8TY
- OS grid reference
- SP 758 109
- Coordinates
- 51.79168, -0.90213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage, situated in Dinton-with-Ford and Gibraltar Upton. The exterior is primarily wichter construction, with colourwashing and rendering over a rubble plinth. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The cottage has two bays and a first floor with dormers. A gabled porch fronts the right side, with a door positioned within. A two-light leaded casement window is also present in the right-hand bay. A modern lean-to extension has been added to the front of the left bay, including a door. Two dormers with swept eaves are visible. A central stack serves the property, with a staircase window tucked under the eaves to one side, featuring an ovolo mullion and a chamfered frame of 17th-century leaded lights. A two-light casement window is located at the rear. The roof is half-hipped, and the right gable includes a lean-to witchert outbuilding, with the gable of the main house above being tile hung. Inside, the right-hand room contains an inglenook fireplace. The interior also reveals chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Old Thatch receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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