The Birdcage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1969. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Birdcage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-railing-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Birdcage, 11, Rose Hill, St. Endellion, PL29 3RL
- OS grid reference
- SW 997 808
- Coordinates
- 50.59257, -4.83129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Birdcage is a house built in the early to mid 19th century by Valentine Powell Richards. It features rendered and painted stone rubble, with some areas slate-hung above the ground floor and thicker stone rubble walls on the more exposed seaward sides. The roof is a slate polygonal hipped design.
The building has a unique one-room polygonal plan with sides of unequal length and stands three storeys tall. The east side has a 20th-century plank door, while the west side overlooks the harbour with replacement sash windows and a small casement on the ground floor. The first floor has a 12-pane horned sash window, and the third floor features a 19th-century 3/6-hornless sash window.
Inside, there are unmoulded 19th-century ceiling beams, a 20th-century chimney-piece in front of a blocked fireplace on the ground floor, and a narrow softwood staircase from the 19th century. The Birdcage is a rare example of an unaltered one-room plan and is a detached house.
Local climate
The Birdcage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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