Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-trefoil-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, Whirley Lane, Henbury, SK10 4RR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 868 742
- Coordinates
- 53.26486, -2.19888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is constructed of red English garden wall bond brick and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and an entrance front with four bays. On the left side, there are two cambered-headed three-light cast iron casement windows, with a doorway to the right of centre that has a 20th-century trellis porch. To the right of the doorway, there is another three-light cambered-headed iron casement window. The first floor has three three-light iron casement windows. There are also 20th-century extensions to the left and rear of the cottage.
Local climate
Fir Tree Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 2017
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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