Fir Trees is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Fir Trees
- WRENN ID
- over-tracery-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fir Trees, Chapel Street, Hinxworth, SG7 5HN
- OS grid reference
- TL 234 406
- Coordinates
- 52.05024, -0.20045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Trees is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, featuring a gable-ended range with a 19th-century extension on the left, creating an L-shaped plan. The structure has a timber frame on the right and is covered with painted brick. There is a later 17th-century red brick ridge chimney stack with vitrified brick dressings. The house has two storeys, and the gable end displays 19th-century sash windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a door on the left, all adorned with thin flattened-arch hood moulds. Inside, there is evidence of an extensive scheme of wall paintings in a ground floor room, likely from the late 16th century, which are only preserved on the studs and feature a floral pattern in black, white, and red.
Local climate
Fir Trees sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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