Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-shingle-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, 14, Bury Lane, Bramfield, SG14 2QL
- OS grid reference
- TL 291 156
- Coordinates
- 51.8249, -0.1279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with a later extension from the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a steeply pitched tiled roof. The building has two storeys and three windows. The central entrance is adorned with shaped brackets supporting a flat hood. On the first floor, there is a small pane single light casement window in the center, while the outer bays contain slightly recessed horizontal sliding sash windows with gauged brick flat arched heads. A projecting course runs along the eaves, and the gable ends have parapets with kneelers. The cottage has external end stacks, with the left stack being larger and original, and the right stack being added or rebuilt, featuring a white brick shaft with an oversailing cap. To the left of the main house is a one-storey former forge, which has a strap-hinged plank door and one and two light small pane metal casements. There is also a dairy lean-to at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Fir Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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