Little Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Cottage.
Little Thatch
- WRENN ID
- tangled-step-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Thatch, Tynts Hill, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 726 489
- Coordinates
- 51.23927, -2.39359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Thatch is a 17th-century cottage located on Tynts Hill in Mells. It is constructed from local limestone rubble with rough quoins and features a thatched roof with brick end stacks, giving it a picturesque appearance. The cottage is one storey and has an attic, comprising two bays. The ground floor has 20th-century casement windows, while the gable features a three-light ovolo moulded stone mullioned window. The door opening is nearly central and contains a 19th-century plank door. There is also a single-storey pent-roofed outshut on the right side.
Local climate
Little Thatch receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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