The Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

The Firs

WRENN ID
floating-rotunda-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
The Firs, B1077, Winston
OS grid reference
TM 184 613
Coordinates
52.20697, 1.19516
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Firs is a farmhouse, likely dating from the 17th century. It has two storeys and a three-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed and roughcast, topped with a thatched roof that features an axial roughcast chimney. The windows are primarily early 20th century small pane casements. There is a mid-20th century gabled entrance porch with a boarded door. To the right, there is a single-storey extension that is either from the 19th or 20th century and has a pantiled roof.

Local climate

The Firs sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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