Fir Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1966. Farmhouse.
Fir Tree House
- WRENN ID
- iron-vestry-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fir Tree House, Pimbo Road, Rainford
- OS grid reference
- SD 505 012
- Coordinates
- 53.50599, -2.74665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree House is a farmhouse dating from 1704, as indicated by the datestone inscribed "IHE/1704". The building is constructed of dressed stone and features a slate roof. It is two storeys high with four bays. The base is dropped at the entrance, where the chamfer continues around the building, and there are two decorative bands and quoins. The windows have hollow-chamfered surrounds and feature 20th-century paired sashes. The entrance has a moulded surround and a 20th-century door.
Between the central first-floor windows, the datestone is framed with an architrave and cable moulding. A stack is located in the roof slope, and the windows on the returns have dripstones. The rear of the house has recessed-chamfered-mullioned windows, including a five-light window on the ground floor and two-light and four-light windows on the first floor, along with a lean-to porch.
Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered beams with stepped stops and back-to-back stone fireplaces. One fireplace features a recessed Tudor-arched head, while the other has a corbelled lintel. On the first floor, one fireplace has a simple chamfered Tudor-headed opening, and the other has an ovolo-moulded opening with a recessed Tudor head. Some walls are timber framed with laths for wattle-and-daub. The staircase includes a moulded handrail, square newels, and 20th-century balusters.
Local climate
Fir Tree House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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