The Black Bird is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1976. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Black Bird
- WRENN ID
- shifting-plaster-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Black Bird, Main Street, Padbury, MK18 2AY
- OS grid reference
- SP 718 306
- Coordinates
- 51.9695, -0.95497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Bird is a public house dating from the 18th to early 19th century, with some alterations. It is constructed of colourwashed rubble stone and features a hipped slate roof. The building stands two storeys high and has one bay facing the road, which includes an altered canted bay window on the ground floor and a sash window above. The northeast front has four bays, with 3-light barred casements featuring cambered heads on the first floor, although the leftmost window is false. The irregular ground floor includes a half-glazed door beneath a flat wooden hood supported by brackets in the second bay and a 3-light casement in the third bay. To the right, there is a 20th-century single-storey lean-to.
Local climate
The Black Bird sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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