The Thatched House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Farmhouse.
The Thatched House
- WRENN ID
- silver-gable-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Thatched House, Butcher's Lane, Pytchley
- OS grid reference
- SP 858 745
- Coordinates
- 52.36239, -0.74087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched House is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century and the 18th century, constructed of coursed rubble with ironstone dressings and a thatched roof, which was added around 1985. It features quoins and coped gables with kneelers. The house has a 19th-century off-centre brick ridge stack, along with rebuilt stone ridge and gable stacks. It is two storeys tall, plus garrets, and consists of six bays in a single range.
The south front has an off-centre flat-roofed glazed porch with beaded jambs and an 18th-century plank door, flanked by two 19th-century canted bay windows, the right one being two-storey, each containing five-light casements. To the left of the porch is a close boarded door with a wooden lintel, followed by a 20th-century three-light casement. Above the bay window, there are three three-light casements with wooden lintels. The east gable has a central casement on each floor and in the garret. The west gable features a blocked door to the left and a 20th-century casement to the right, with an eroded datestone above, possibly dating from 1676.
At the rear, there is an off-centre mid-19th-century single-storey rear wing and a long 19th-century lean-to porch to the west. Inside, there is part of a cruck truss near the centre and a single purlin principal rafter roof to the east. The early 19th-century main staircase has a ramped handrail and stick balusters, while there is a straight 18th-century stair leading to the garret. The interior also includes five plank doors and two fielded panel doors, all from the 18th century.
Local climate
The Thatched House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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