The Birches is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 2000. A C17 Residential. 2 related planning applications.
The Birches
- WRENN ID
- ruined-wicket-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 2000
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Birches, Mows Hill Lane, Tanworth-In-Arden, B94 5PN
- OS grid reference
- SP 142 701
- Coordinates
- 52.32922, -1.79243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Birches is a house located in Tanworth-in-Arden, with a rear range dating from the 17th century and a front section likely built in 1757, as indicated by a date on a beam. The building features a brick structure with a painted pebbledash facade and a timber-framed brick range at the rear. It has a gabled roof covered with renewed tiles, brick end stacks with cornices, and a 17th-century stack at the rear.
The exterior is two storeys high with a two-window range. The left rear range is one-and-a-half storeys with an additional outshut. The entrance features a central part-glazed four-panel door, and the windows are 6/6 sashes throughout. Inside, the rear range displays extensive exposed panels of square framing, along with chamfered beams, moulded cornices, and six-panel doors in the front part. There is also a plank dividing wall on the first floor. The Birches forms a group with No. 6 nearby.
Local climate
The Birches receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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