Firtrees Kimbers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. House.
Firtrees Kimbers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-wall-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Firtrees Kimbers Cottage, Butlers Hall Lane, Thorley
- OS grid reference
- TL 467 194
- Coordinates
- 51.85419, 0.12966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kimbers Cottage and Firtrees is a 17th-century house that has been divided into two separate homes. The building is timber-framed and faces north, featuring symmetrical extensions at both ends. It has a plastered exterior with panelled pargetting above an irregular black painted plinth, which has been renewed. The roof is gabled and covered with old red tiles, and there is a central chimney made of red brick. The house has four dormers with raking roofs and a four-window front. The lower, one and a half storey extensions on each end project forward from the main structure and have modern small casement windows.
Local climate
Firtrees Kimbers Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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