Fir Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. A C17 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Fir Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-quartz-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fir Tree Farmhouse, Inglewhite Road, Goosnargh, PR3 2ED
- OS grid reference
- SD 567 398
- Coordinates
- 53.85298, -2.65929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been altered over time. It is constructed from handmade brick, with the front covered in roughcast, and features a slate roof topped with a brick chimney stack. The building has a three-bay baffle-entry plan, with a projecting porch-cum-stair turret aligned with the chimney stack at the junction of the second and third bays.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a continuous drip course that runs around the porch. The two-storey gabled porch has a doorway that is offset to the left, featuring a hollow-moulded stone surround with a large shaped lintel that has no lettering. There is a peep window on each floor of the left side of the porch. The facade includes three horizontal rectangular windows on each floor, which have been altered to three-light casements.
A barn that continues to the left of the farmhouse is not included in the listing. The rear of the building is of less interest. Inside, the house part in the second bay and the former kitchen in the third bay both have large back-to-back inglenook fireplaces, which feature chamfered bressummers and matching beams with cyma stops. There is also a dogleg staircase with a closed string and a moulded handrail, with the balusters panelled over.
Local climate
Fir Tree Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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