The Thatch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. A C18 Cottage.
The Thatch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-plaster-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatch Cottage, Piddington Road, Ludgershall
- OS grid reference
- SP 657 177
- Coordinates
- 51.85445, -1.04693
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatch Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid-18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of brick, which has been whitewashed on the front, and features exposed timber trusses in the gables. The roof is half-hipped, topped with straw, which sits on corrugated iron beneath the thatch. There is a brick chimney located to the right of the center of the building. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and consists of two bays. The front facade includes a paired wooden casement window on the left, a lobby entry with a 20th-century door and porch at the center, and paired leaded casements in the gable ends. Inside, the left room contains a chamfered spine beam.
Local climate
The Thatch Cottage 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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