Birch Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1972. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Birch Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-marble-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Birch Tree Cottage, the Street, Wherstead, IP9 2AL
- OS grid reference
- TM 156 406
- Coordinates
- 52.02239, 1.14195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch Tree Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 17th century, with a rear wing added in the 18th to 19th centuries. The front range is timber-framed, set on a brick plinth, and rendered, while the rear range is constructed of red brick. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and feature a brick stack. The building has a T-shaped plan, with the front range being a single storey and attic, designed with a three-bay central lobby-entry layout. It has a 20th-century door and casement windows, along with a steeply pitched swept roof that includes bargeboards and a central stack. The rear range is two storeys high and also has a 20th-century door and casement windows. Inside the front range, the ground sill and wall studding are exposed, and there is a chamfered spine beam and bressumer above the fireplace.
Local climate
Birch Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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