Birch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Woking local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Birch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-spandrel-hemlock
- 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 Cottage, 5, High Street, GU21 4XA
- OS grid reference
- SU 989 595
- Coordinates
- 51.32649, -0.58102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birch Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with a 19th-century front. It features a timber frame with rendered brick infill and a 19th-century plain tiled roof that has bands of fishscale tiles, along with a ridge stack located at the rear right. The building is two storeys high and has three leaded casement windows on the first floor, while the ground floor windows are set under cambered heads. To the left of the front, there is a planked and ribbed door that is sheltered by a gabled porch supported by wooden posts and filled with brick. The original timber framing is visible at the rear, which also has a 20th-century wing added to the rear right.
Local climate
Birch Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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