Bird in Hand Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
Bird in Hand Public House
- WRENN ID
- far-cloister-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1978
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Bird in Hand Public House, Chapel Hill, Halstead, CO9 1JP
- OS grid reference
- TL 806 305
- Coordinates
- 51.94432, 0.6272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bird in Hand is a public house, dating originally from the 17th century. It is a two-storey timber-framed building which was subsequently plastered and given a red plain tile roof. The building was altered during the 19th century and now has modern weatherboarding on the exterior. It features vertical sliding sash windows, also modern. Some of the original timber framing remains visible inside the building, and there is the base of an original chimney stack present.
Local climate
Bird in Hand Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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