Birchers is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1983. Cottage.
Birchers
- WRENN ID
- vast-brass-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Birchers, 23, Middle Street, Great Gransden
- OS grid reference
- TL 270 558
- Coordinates
- 52.18627, -0.14285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birchers is an early 18th-century cottage located on Middle Street in Great Gransden. The building is timber framed and plastered, with red brick foundations. It features a thatched, half-hipped roof, a ridge stack, and a 20th-century side stack facing the road. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with two three-light casement windows on either side of the doorway. There is also a modern closed porch.
Local climate
Birchers 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
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