Birds House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. House. 5 related planning applications.
Birds House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-cobalt-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birds House, 26, Bengal Lane, Greens Norton, NN12 8BE
- OS grid reference
- SP 670 493
- Coordinates
- 52.13818, -1.02239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birds House is a house dated 1666, with alterations from the 18th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone, banded with ironstone, and features ironstone dressings, along with red brick in Flemish bond with flared headers. The roof is covered in plain tiles, and there are stone end and ridge stacks. The building has a two-unit plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and has a two-window range.
The central entrance features a 20th-century door set in a pegged wood surround, with a stop-chamfered wood lintel to the right. On the ground and first floors, there are three-light hollow-chamfered leaded stone mullion windows, both with hood moulds. Above, there is a gabled dormer window with a similar three-light window, where the central light is stepped up and has a stepped hood mould. To the far right, there is a small rectangular window with a chamfered stone surround, and a similar blocked window is located above the door.
To the left of the centre, there is a bay faced with brick on a stone plinth, which has a two-light leaded casement window on the ground floor with HL hinges, and a three-light leaded casement window on the first floor, both with wood lintels. The building features quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers. The stone flues have chamfered bases and cornices, with the end stack to the right bearing an inscription of B/HM below the cornice and another above the base inscribed 1666.
Inside, the house has stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a bar-stop-chamfered bressumer. The roof is supported by a collar truss.
Local climate
Birds House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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