Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage.

Fir Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
standing-belfry-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Fir Tree Cottage, the Street, Pluckley
OS grid reference
TQ 926 453
Coordinates
51.17455, 0.75454
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fir Tree Cottage is a building from the 17th century located on the south-west side of The Street in Pluckley. It has two storeys, with the ground floor finished in roughcast and the upper floor tile-hung. The cottage features a hipped tiled roof with a pentice behind and sprocket eaves. There are four casement windows on the façade.

Local climate

Fir Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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