Little Thatches is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Little Thatches
- WRENN ID
- final-zinc-finch
- 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 Thatches, Mill Lane, Westbury, NN13 5JS
- OS grid reference
- SP 621 357
- Coordinates
- 52.01675, -1.09598
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Thatches is a 17th to 18th century cottage constructed from rubble stone, featuring timber lintels above its openings and a thatched roof. The building is 1½ storeys high and consists of four bays. The left-hand bay is set back and lower than the others. The right-hand bay includes ironstone quoins and a stone lintel with a key block above the ground floor window. The cottage has three-light leaded casements. The second bay from the right features a boarded and studded door situated in a thatched timber porch, with a single casement window to its right.
Local climate
Little Thatches 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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