Firs Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Farmhouse.
Firs Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- first-gable-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Firs Farmhouse, Stoke Upon Tern
- OS grid reference
- SJ 656 263
- Coordinates
- 52.83385, -2.51102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Firs Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, with an addition from the mid to late 18th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging on a brick plinth, and some parts have been rebuilt in brick with painted imitation framing. The red brick addition has a plain tile roof. The framing consists of small square panels with short corner braces and long straight tension braces, arranged in a T-plan.
The south front has a central timber-framed gabled eaves dormer with a 20th-century two-light wooden casement. The hall range has a large brick ridge stack off-centre to the right and another stack in front of the ridge off-centre to the left. The cross wing features plat bands, a toothed-brick eaves cornice, parapeted gable ends with moulded stone kneelers, and an integral brick end stack at the front.
The hall range has a three-window front with 20th-century three-light wooden casements. The door between the first and second windows from the left has four raised and fielded panels. There is a 17th-century two-storey timber-framed and brick gabled porch with a first-floor three-light wooden casement, a segmental-arched entrance, and segmental-arched side openings with splat balusters. A boarded door is located between the first and second windows from the left. The return of the cross wing has 20th-century two-light wooden casements, while the rear of the cross wing features 20th-century two-light wooden casements and a blind attic window. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Firs Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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