Firbank is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1963. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Firbank
- WRENN ID
- kindled-turret-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Firbank, Brook Street, Eastry
- OS grid reference
- TR 310 546
- Coordinates
- 51.24408, 1.30939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Firbank is a house dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of red brick with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, set on a plinth, featuring a projecting centre and pilaster strip quoins. There is a discontinuous plat band and a moulded wooden eaves cornice above the hipped roof, which includes two hipped dormers and a central stack on the right side.
On the first floor, there are two glazing bar sash windows and a central wooden casement. The ground floor has two glazing bar sash windows with moulded cornices above them. The entrance features a central panelled door framed by a 20th-century fluted surround with a pediment. There is a basement opening to the right and a catslide outshot at the rear.
Local climate
Firbank receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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