High Birch Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
High Birch Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-chalk-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- High Birch Farmhouse, High Birch Road, St. Osyth, CO16 9BU
- OS grid reference
- TM 140 194
- Coordinates
- 51.83228, 1.10474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Birch Farmhouse is a house dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, with later alterations and additions. It is timber-framed and plastered, with some batten decoration, and has red plain tiled roofs. The house features left and right external red brick chimney stacks, the one on the right being plastered. The left side is a jettied crosswing of two storeys, while the right side is a single-storey and attic range of separate builds. There are various later rear ranges. The front has a 1:2 window range of small paned vertically sliding shutters and a central casement. The timber frame is very heavy, with widely spaced wall studs, halved arched bracing to the walls, large bridging and ceiling joists, and some stop-chamfered arched braced tie beams. Original mullion slots are also present.
Local climate
High Birch Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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