The Birches is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Birches
- WRENN ID
- grey-minaret-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Birches, Fordcombe Road, Penshurst, TN11 8DL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 524 435
- Coordinates
- 51.17061, 0.17935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Birches is a building dating from around 1835, located on Fordcombe Road in Penshurst. It is two and a half storeys tall and features five windows. The roof is fairly low pitched and hipped, covered with slate, and has bracketed eaves. The exterior is finished in stucco with incised lines, and there is a moulded string course at the cills of the second-floor windows. The sash windows on the first and second floors have glazing bars, and the first-floor windows are adorned with moulded architraves. At the front, there is a long veranda with a glazed roof, supported by square columns, which projects at both ends. This veranda is likely from around 1900.
Local climate
The Birches receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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