Firs Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1979. Farmhouse.
Firs Farm
- WRENN ID
- scattered-pavement-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Firs Farm, Cowgate Lane, Hawkinge
- OS grid reference
- TR 228 399
- Coordinates
- 51.11588, 1.18332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Firs Farm is a farmhouse built in the early 19th century. It features buff brick in Flemish bond and has a slate roof. The building is double depth and stands two storeys tall, with flat eaves soffits and a hipped roof. There are rendered gable-end stacks on both the left and right sides. The front has an almost regular arrangement of three recessed twelve-pane sash windows, with additional space on the left. The ground floor also has similar windows, which are adorned with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. The entrance door has two flush reeded panels and four lights, topped with a reeded head in the architrave and a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. This door is set slightly to the right of centre within a doubly-recessed round-headed brick architrave, which features rubbed brick voussoirs. The porch has iron supports and an ogee corrugated iron canopy. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Firs Farm receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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