Monks Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House.
Monks Thatch
- WRENN ID
- gentle-tower-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Monks Thatch, Church Street, Isle Abbotts
- OS grid reference
- ST 352 209
- Coordinates
- 50.98419, -2.92432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks Thatch is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble and features a thatched roof with two ashlar stacks that have moulded caps. The building is a single storey with an attic and consists of two bays. On the first floor, there are two three-light wooden casement windows with square-paned leaded lights, and the eaves rise to form bonnet hoods.
On the ground floor, to the right, there are two two-light stone-mullioned windows, each with a cambered head, and a continuous stopped label above them. To the left, there is a three-light moulded stone-mullioned window with a stopped label and square-paned lead lights, as well as a three-light moulded wooden casement window, also with leaded lights. The central door opening features a plank door and is topped by a thatched bonnet hood supported by wooden posts. A sundial is located to the left of the frontage.
Inside, there are two plank and muntin partitions flanking a through passage, ceiling beams, and a fireplace with a wooden bressumer. The building may have originally served as a church house or the residence of a priest.
Local climate
Monks Thatch receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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