Bird's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Farmhouse.
Bird's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-portal-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bird's Farmhouse, Church Road, Henham
- OS grid reference
- TL 544 286
- Coordinates
- 51.93518, 0.24593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bird's Farmhouse is an early 17th century timber-framed and plastered building. It has two storeys, with the upper storey jettied on the south front. There is a later lean-to addition at the east end. The house features a two-window range, primarily with casement windows. The roof is tiled and hipped at both the east and west ends.
Local climate
Bird's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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