Silver Birches is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.
Silver Birches
- WRENN ID
- eastward-buttress-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Silver Birches, 143, High Street, Needham Market, IP6 8DH
- OS grid reference
- TM 086 552
- Coordinates
- 52.15652, 1.04891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Silver Birches is a house dating from around 1840, with a core dating back to the 18th century. It is located on the west side of Needham Market High Street. The house is two storeys high and is constructed with a timber frame, now rendered with a pebble-dashed finish. The roof is hipped and covered with concrete pantiles, featuring a red brick axial chimney. The windows are small-pane sashes; on the ground floor are a pair of flat-roofed, splayed bay windows with arcaded cornices. A 19th-century painted brick porch on the left-hand side provides access to a six-panelled entrance door featuring fielded panels and an oblong fanlight with border panes. Internally, the 18th-century timber framing is exposed, revealing much reused oak timber, primary bracing, and on-edge floor joists.
Local climate
Silver Birches 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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