Firs Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Firs Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tangled-solder-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Ribble
Constituency
South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 February 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Firs Farmhouse, 468 and 470, Leyland Lane, PR25 1LA
OS grid reference
SD 527 211
Coordinates
53.68436, -2.71751
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Firs Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with later alterations and additions. It features handmade brick construction, a stone plinth, stone dressings, and slate roofs. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-bay front range and a receding two-bay crosswing, which has a stone plinth and may be older than the front range. There is a 19th-century addition at the rear in the re-entrant area.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic in the left-hand wing. At the joint between the two elements, there is a plain doorway. To the right, there are two three-light stone mullion windows on each floor, while to the left, there is one sash window on each floor, with the ground floor window having all its glazing bars intact. A square attic opening, now covered with a board painted to resemble a window, is also present. The building has two ridge chimneys and one gable chimney at the rear of the wing.

The left-hand return wall features a plain door, one ground floor sash window with a brick hoodmould, and two sash windows above. All windows in the wing have stone sills and splayed stone heads, and there is a timber wallplate under the gutter. Inside, there are pairs of ovolo-moulded bridging beams in three ground floor rooms and two rooms above. The first floor has crosswalls and partitions made of timber framing with clamstaff and daub infill.

Local climate

Firs Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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