1, Birch Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House. 2 related planning applications.
1, Birch Street
- WRENN ID
- far-hall-flax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Birch Street, Nayland-With-Wissington, CO6 4JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 974 343
- Coordinates
- 51.97291, 0.87378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 Birch Street is a 16th-century timber-framed and plastered house featuring a jettied upper storey with exposed joists and timber framing. The ground floor is faced with colourwashed brick. At the west end, on the corner with Mill Street, there is a single-storey addition that has a curved wall and a tiled roof. The building has two storeys and attics, with one window range. The first storey features casement windows with glazing bars, while the ground storey has a horizontal sliding sash window. The attic is illuminated by a horizontal sliding sash window in the gable. The roof is covered with old tiles. The building is recognized for its composite group interest.
Local climate
1, Birch Street 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 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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