Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-plaster-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, Ford and Stoke Prior, HR6 0LH
- OS grid reference
- SO 524 563
- Coordinates
- 52.20324, -2.69719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century that was restored and extended in the late 20th century. It features a timber-framed structure with painted brick infill set on a rubble base and has a slate roof. The building consists of two framed bays aligned east to west, with an external rubble chimney at the east gable end, which has tiled offsets and a detached brick stack.
The cottage is two storeys high, with its framing consisting of four rows of panels from the sill to the wall-plate, and short straight braces across the lower corners of the first floor level. At the east end, there is a collar and tie-beam truss with four struts beneath the collar and a V-strut in the apex. The west end features a tie-beam truss with latticed struts. All windows are 20th-century casements.
On the north front elevation, there are two-light and three-light windows on both floors, along with a plank weathering at the level of the girding beam. To the east bay, there is a large two-bay, two-storey 20th-century wing that includes a lean-to outshut with a catslide roof in the west angle. The main entrance is currently located on the west side of this outshut. Additionally, there is a rubble lean-to addition at the west end of the main range.
Local climate
Fir Tree Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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