Bird in the Hand is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. House.
Bird in the Hand
- WRENN ID
- half-loggia-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bird in the Hand, Hardingham
- OS grid reference
- TG 056 050
- Coordinates
- 52.60448, 1.03493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bird in the Hand is a house dating from around 1700 and later, located in Hardingham. Originally timber-framed, the front has been replaced with brick, while the south gable-end features brick and flint with close tumbling-in. The roof is covered with pantiles and the building is one and a half storeys high.
There are two phases of replacement brickwork; the earlier 18th-century phase includes two 3-light ground floor windows with metal casements set beneath segmental arches, and the casements have decorative metal pulls. A modern door is present. The later phase, likely from the 19th century, has one 3-light casement window beneath a crudely executed skewback arch.
The front also features three sloping dormers, two of which have 18th-century 2-light windows with metal casements. The roof has shaped eaves sprockets, and there is one stack on the south gable-end and one off-centre axial stack. The building has later extensions to the sides and rear.
Local climate
Bird in the Hand sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
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