Birchgrove is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. A C18 Farmhouse.

Birchgrove

WRENN ID
weathered-moat-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 April 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Birchgrove, B 4397, Baschurch
OS grid reference
SJ 435 233
Coordinates
52.80495, -2.83885
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Birchgrove is a disused farmhouse dated 1705, with mid-19th century additions and alterations. It features painted red brick and large red sandstone blocks at the ground floor of the 19th century addition. The roof is plain tile at the front and slate at the rear and on the addition. There is a red brick ridge stack slightly to the right of center and an integral end stack on the addition. The building has an L-plan layout, consisting of a two-room lobby-entry main range and a full-height 19th century addition to the rear on the left, which is indicated by a straight joint.

The farmhouse is two stories high, with a continuous floor band and deep boxed eaves at the front, and a dentilled eaves cornice at the rear and on the 19th century addition. It has segmental-headed three-light leaded casements, although the lower left window has had its leaded lights replaced by plate glass. These windows are positioned on either side of a mid-19th century flat-roofed brick porch, which features a contemporary four-panel outer door with a rectangular barred overlight and an inner segmental-arched doorway with panelled reveals. Above the porch is a moulded datestone inscribed with "H/TE/1705".

Inside, the front ground-floor rooms have panelled window shutters. The first floor has wide-boarded oak floorboards and late 18th century or early 19th century cast-iron fireplaces in the left and right rooms.

Local climate

Birchgrove receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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