The Birches Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Birches Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- moated-lime-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Birches Farmhouse, Weobley, HR4 8RB
- OS grid reference
- SO 374 525
- Coordinates
- 52.1678, -2.91557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Birches Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with some early 19th century and mid-20th century alterations. It features a timber frame with brick infill, some of which is painted, and is partly clad in brick on a coursed rubble plinth beneath a hipped slate roof. The building has a T-plan layout, with a cross-wing aligned north to south and another range to the west. The main stack is made of rubble and located at the north gable.
The east front has two storeys and is jettied to the left, with the right side faced in brick. On the first floor, there are two 4-light casements over a 3-light casement to the left and another 4-light casement to the right. The entrance, located to the right of centre, features a 19th-century gabled tiled porch and a ledged and boarded door. The framing is close-studded with a mid-rail on each floor, and the jetty bressummer is chamfered. The rear wing has three square panels high with straight angle braces.
Local climate
The Birches Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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