Birch Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Birch Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-spandrel-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Birch Farmhouse, Frilsham, RG18 9XN
- OS grid reference
- SU 529 738
- Coordinates
- 51.4611, -1.23909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century and 17th century, with a 19th-century refacing. It features a timber frame with later brick refacing and a rendered first floor. The roof is covered with old tiles, half hipped to the left, and has a gabled semi-dormer to the right that includes a casement window. The building is arranged in an L-plan with two framed bays and a two-bay wing to the left at the rear. It has a lobby entrance design and is one and a half storeys tall. The southeast front has one glazing bar sash window on each side of a central gabled porch, which contains a four-panelled door under a segmental head. The rear wing from the 16th century has its timber frame exposed in the gable end.
Local climate
Birch Farmhouse 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- 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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