Bird Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1981. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Bird Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-pinnacle-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bird Tree Cottage, 156, High Street, Portishead, BS20 6PY
- OS grid reference
- ST 467 757
- Coordinates
- 51.47813, -2.7682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bird Tree Cottage is probably late 17th century. It is constructed of painted rubble with a tiled roof, originally thatched, and the roof has been raised. The building is arranged in an L-shape with a cross passage and stacks located at the south end and centre. It has two storeys and three windows. The north wing features moulded mullion windows. The interior includes chamfered beams and fireplace lintels in both ground floor rooms. In the south room, there are remains of a bread oven.
Local climate
Bird Tree Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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