Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. A C17 House.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-jamb-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, 6, Chapel Road, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 150 220
- Coordinates
- 51.88559, -0.32996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is a house that likely dates from the 17th century and was altered in the 18th century. It has a timber frame that is roughcast, with a red brick ground floor at the front and steep old red tile roofs. The house is two stories tall and faces east, featuring a gabled lower rear wing. There is a catslide extension on the south side that overlaps the south end of the front range. The east front has roughcast above the window head of the ground floor. There is a battened door on the right under a gabled timber porch, with a bow window to the left. A two-light casement window is located on the first floor, and there is an internal south gable chimney.
Local climate
Fir Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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