Firth's Stores is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Shop.
Firth's Stores
- WRENN ID
- former-lime-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Firth's Stores, 60, West Street, Horncastle
- OS grid reference
- TF 254 696
- Coordinates
- 53.20895, -0.12309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Firth's Stores is a shop with accommodation above, dating from the mid-18th century with later additions from the late 19th century and 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring some areas of colourwashed render. It has a plain tiled roof with brick coped and tumbled gables, moulded brick eaves, and a single gable stack.
The structure is two storeys high and has a four-bay front, with a single lower 19th-century bay on the right side, which adjoins No. 58. The ground floor is finished with colourwashed render. There is a doorway on the right with a segmental head and a partially glazed door. To the left, there is a 20th-century shop front with a plain plate glass window. Another doorway to the left has a segmental head, a blocked overlight, and a partially glazed door. Beyond this, there is a plain sash window with a segmental head. The upper floor features four plain sash windows, with a 20th-century cross mullion casement to the right, all of which have segmental heads.
Local climate
Firth's Stores sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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