Birds Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. A Medieval Cottage.
Birds Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rusted-tower-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Birds Farmhouse, 2, Haslingfield Road, Barton
- OS grid reference
- TL 407 550
- Coordinates
- 52.17612, 0.05653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birds Farmhouse is a cottage dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th century. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with part brick underbuild, and is topped with longstraw thatch, characterized by half-hipped gable ends and a rebuilt ridge stack. The building has a single range plan consisting of four bays and is one storey high with an attic, possibly with a jettied east end. It includes three dormers and has 20th-century windows.
Inside, the original layout includes a two-bay open hall with floored ends. A floor and stack were added in the 16th and 17th centuries. The exposed framing showcases chamfered and boxed tiebeams, as well as chamfered principal posts. The roof is wind-braced with side purlins and sooted rafters above the hall, and there are some mortices indicating the presence of a louvre. The inserted main beam in the former open hall features double ovolo moulding.
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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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