Birch House is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Birch House
- WRENN ID
- late-eave-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birch House, Eversley Road, Arborfield and Newland, RG2 9PG
- OS grid reference
- SU 762 669
- Coordinates
- 51.39619, -0.90556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch House is a house dating to the 17th century that was refronted in the 18th century and altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of vitreous and red brick laid in a diaper pattern above the upper windows, with an old tile gabled roof. The building has an irregular plan and two storeys, with chimneys at each end. The front façade features a brick string course, boxed wood eaves, and three small sash windows with glazing bars, except for a single-storey angular bay to the left of the ground floor. The central entrance has a half-glazed door with an architrave surround and a small corniced hood. Inside, a late 17th-century newel staircase has a moulded handrail and turned balusters on the first-floor landing. Certain ground-floor beams retain chamfers and run-out stops, and some thin framing is also present.
Local climate
Birch House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
- 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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