Barn at Birbecks is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Barn. 6 related planning applications.
Barn at Birbecks
- WRENN ID
- sombre-thatch-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Birbecks, Redgates Lane, Sewards End, CB10 2LW
- OS grid reference
- TL 570 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02257, 0.28799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th or 19th-century barn located in Sewards End, near Saffron Walden. It is timber-framed with weatherboarded ends. The north and south faces are rendered, with a skirt of black weatherboarding. The barn has a gabled thatched roof. The original three bays feature unjowled posts, arch braces to the tie-beams, and bracing interrupting the studs. The barn was later floored to create a loft.
Local climate
Barn at Birbecks sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- 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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