Birds is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. House. 6 related planning applications.

Birds

WRENN ID
strange-trefoil-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1984
Type
House
Address
Birds, High Easter, CM6 1NF
OS grid reference
TL 630 179
Coordinates
51.83621, 0.36504
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Birds is a small house dating from the late 15th century or earlier. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has one storey and attics, featuring a three-window range of casements with small pediments. At the rear, there are three dormers. The house has a central 16th-century red brick chimney stack and a later chimney on the end wall.

Local climate

Birds 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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 EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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