Little Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. A C16 Cottage.
Little Thatch
- WRENN ID
- brooding-forge-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Thatch, Kingsbury Episcopi
- OS grid reference
- ST 423 203
- Coordinates
- 50.97934, -2.82296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Thatch is a cottage that dates from the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed from rubble, cob, and brick, and is finished with a colourwashed exterior and a thatched roof, featuring brick stacks. The building is single storey with an attic and has two bays. It includes 19th-century casement windows with glazing bars, consisting of two and three lights. The door opening is located to the right and features panelled glazed doors. Inside, there is a framed ceiling with moulded ribs on the ground floor, and a fireplace that has a moulded bressumer. The original roof construction includes tie beams.
Local climate
Little Thatch receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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