Birds Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Birds Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-thatch-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Birds Farmhouse, Bridge Road, Broughton, PE28 3AY
- OS grid reference
- TL 280 778
- Coordinates
- 52.38351, -0.1205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birds Farmhouse is a late 17th century or early 18th century farmhouse located on Broughton Bridge Road. The building is two storeys high with attics and features a lower two-storey range on the left side. At the rear, there is a gabled stair turret with a dentil brick eaves cornice. The east gable wall has two single brick bands. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, and there is a ridge stack to the left of the center, along with a later rough-cast end stack on the right.
The farmhouse has two flat-roofed hung sash dormer windows with glazing bars. On the first floor, there are three hung sash windows with glazing bars set in flat arches, and on the ground floor, there are three hung sash windows with side lights. A modern door is located on the left side, sheltered by a triangular pedimented open porch.
Inside, the farmhouse features two large inglenook hearths, one of which is sealed. The ceilings have stop-chamfered beams, and there is an original closed string staircase with square sectioned newels topped with ball finials.
Local climate
Birds Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 sale records on file
- 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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