Birk Ward is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Cottages.
Birk Ward
- WRENN ID
- tenth-facade-heron
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1980
- Type
- Cottages
- OS grid reference
- NO 540 495
- Coordinates
- 56.63518, -2.75066
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Birk Ward consists of five single-storey row cottages built from whitewashed rubble with slate roofs. The lintel is dated 1779. The cottages have been altered for use as farm buildings. There are inset stones that read JP.EP and 1667.
Local climate
Birk Ward sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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