The Bird House is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. Summerhouse.
The Bird House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cobalt-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- Summerhouse
- OS grid reference
- TQ 543 539
- Coordinates
- 51.26406, 0.21121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bird House is an ornamental Gothic summerhouse, now converted into a gamekeeper's cottage, located in Knole Park. It dates from around the early 19th century but incorporates an older structure. The building is octagonal in shape and features a conical slate roof, with two supporting towers on the sides. There is a projecting gabled porch on the north side, which has a statue at the apex of the gable. The elevations are rough plastered and include small Gothic casement windows and dormers, as well as flat dentilled eaves and a gutter. The Bird House is situated in a grotto, with 18th-century ruins nearby.
Local climate
The Bird House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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