The Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. A N/A House. 2 related planning applications.
The Firs
- WRENN ID
- sheer-passage-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- The Firs, Fishponds Way, Haughley, IP14 3PJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 028 619
- Coordinates
- 52.21872, 0.96877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Firs is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and mid-20th centuries. It is constructed of red brick, featuring a band at the first floor level, while the left-hand section is plastered and the entire facade was painted in the mid-20th century. The building has a hipped roof covered with plain tiles, adorned with large modillions arranged in groups of three beneath the eaves. There are internal chimneys made of red brick. The house is two storeys high and has a recessed two-window centre block flanked by slightly set-forward cross-wings, each also with two windows. The mid-19th century sash windows have large panes and are set in original segmental-headed openings made of gauged brick. The entrance features a mid-20th century panelled door beneath a flat canopy that is supported by curved brackets. The interior and rear of the house have undergone significant remodelling in the 19th and mid-20th centuries.
Local climate
The Firs 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- 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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