Fir Tree Cottage with Attached Plinth and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 2001. House. 1 related planning application.

Fir Tree Cottage with Attached Plinth and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
hallowed-remnant-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Constituency
Newcastle-under-Lyme MP: Adam Jogee (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 February 2001
Type
House
Address
Fir Tree Cottage with Attached Plinth and Gate Piers, CW3 9AA
OS grid reference
SJ 753 485
Coordinates
53.03341, -2.3684
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fir Tree Cottage is a house that likely dates from the late 18th century and was remodeled around 1880 by Robert Griffiths for Thomas Fletcher Twemlow as part of a development on the Betley estate. The cottage has undergone some alterations and additions in the late 20th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tile roof with a single gable and ridge coped brick stacks. The eaves are dentillated brick. The windows are mainly 19th-century three-light casements with segmental heads. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays.

On the right side, there is a door that is covered by a late 20th-century porch. Above this door, there is a plain sash window from the 19th century with a segmental head. On the left side, there are two windows on each floor. The rear of the cottage has late 20th-century windows.

The exterior features a chamfered blue brick plinth that used to have railings and extends across the front, returning to the left side. There are a pair of square gate piers made of red and blue brick with pyramidal stone caps, and a similar pier on the left that has been reduced in height.

Local climate

Fir Tree Cottage with Attached Plinth and Gate Piers receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
  • 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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