Farm Building at the Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Farm building.

Farm Building at the Firs

WRENN ID
roaming-zinc-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Type
Farm building
Address
Farm Building at the Firs, Aston by Budworth
OS grid reference
SJ 674 817
Coordinates
53.33169, -2.48958
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farm building at The Firs dates from the late 17th century. It features a stone plinth and a timber frame with brick infill, topped with a slate roof. The building has a two-storey plan, with a shippon on the ground floor and a loft above. The front facade consists of 11 by 3 cells of small framing, with angle braces at the upper corners. There is a central gabled loft door from the 19th century, and a 19th-century addition to the left. The right gable end has 4 by 3 cells of small framing, with both angle and tension bracing; one of the tension braces is interrupted by a 19th-century doorway. The rear also has 11 by 3 cells of small framing with angle braces at the corners, featuring doors to the right, left, and left of centre, along with a 19th-century addition to the right.

Local climate

Farm Building at the Firs 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 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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