Firtree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Firtree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-slate-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Firtree Cottage, Lyminge, CT4 6XX
- OS grid reference
- TR 150 430
- Coordinates
- 51.14631, 1.07354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Firtree Cottage is a late 18th or early 19th century farmhouse, now a house. It is built of red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a plain tile roof. The cottage is two stories high, with a hipped roof. A projecting brick stack in English bond, featuring plain-tiled shoulders, is located at the left gable end, and a smaller similar stack is situated on the right. The front facade has a regular two-window arrangement, featuring two-light, horizontally-sliding sash windows. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads. The left-hand window is similar to those on the first floor, while the right-hand window is a two-light casement. A central boarded door is topped by a slanted, bracketed hood. A brick lean-to is attached to the rear. The interior has not been inspected. The building possesses group value from its contribution to the local vernacular.
Local climate
Firtree Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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