Birchen Fields Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1988. A C17 Farmhouse.
Birchen Fields Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sunken-facade-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Birchen Fields Farmhouse, Rectory Lane, Armitage with Handsacre
- OS grid reference
- SK 075 156
- Coordinates
- 52.73813, -1.88959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birchen Fields Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located in Armitage with Handsacre. It features roughcast timber framing set on a high sandstone plinth, topped with a plain tile roof and a roughcast central stack. The house has a two-cell baffle-entry plan and is aligned north-east to south-west, facing south-east. It stands two storeys tall with a two-window front, which includes 19th-century casements. A central gabled sandstone porch is present, with a two-light chamfer mullioned window on its right side. The entrance features a segmental pointed arch doorway that leads to a 17th-century oak door, which is studded with nails.
Local climate
Birchen Fields Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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