Fir Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. House.

Fir Tree House

WRENN ID
peeling-barrel-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 February 1967
Type
House
Address
Fir Tree House, Downham
OS grid reference
SD 785 441
Coordinates
53.8929, -2.32714
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fir Tree House is a house from the late 18th century with some remains from the 17th century. It is built of rubble and has a stone slate roof. The house has two storeys and two bays. The ground-floor windows are made up of three lights; the left window features rebated and chamfered splayed mullions and a hood, while the right window has a plain stone surround and square mullions. The first-floor windows consist of two lights with square mullions and plain stone surrounds. The door, located between the bays, has plain reveals and there are chimneys at both ends of the house.

On the right-hand gable, there is a narrow two-storey lean-to that contains a stair and features a blocked narrow chamfered window with a segmental head visible at the front. To the left of this lean-to is a blocked doorway with a chamfered surround. The chimney on the right-hand gable has a projecting stack.

Inside, the right-hand room has a cupboard door from the 18th century on each side of the current fireplace, with raised and fielded panels and ogee heads on the upper panels. A 17th-century panelled door leads to the stair outshut, which contains a spiral stone stair. Additionally, there is a rear door in the room that is also a 17th-century panelled door.

Local climate

Fir Tree House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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