Birch House is a Grade II listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Birch House
- WRENN ID
- south-alcove-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Woking
- Constituency
- Woking MP: Mr Will Forster (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birch House, Horsell Birch, GU21 4XD
- OS grid reference
- SU 989 595
- Coordinates
- 51.32684, -0.58125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch House is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and significant extensions added to the rear in the 20th century. The front features a timber frame of thin scantling, with brick infill below and fishscale tile hanging above. The extensions are constructed of yellow stock brick and painted boarding, topped with plain tiled roofs that include a central ridge stack. The house has two storeys and an attic, featuring gable end windows and three bays, with a central bargeboarded gable bay that projects. Throughout the building, there are casement windows. The central bay has a 20th-century six-panel door beneath a curved pent roofed porch hood, and there is an additional glazed door in a single-storey pent roof addition to the left end. Inside, some framing is visible, primarily in the ceiling joists.
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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
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