The Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
The Firs
- WRENN ID
- buried-spandrel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Firs, Deans Hill Road, Bredgar, ME9 8ET
- OS grid reference
- TQ 874 602
- Coordinates
- 51.31036, 0.68757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Firs is a Wealden house dating from the 16th century, with additions from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a timber frame that is clad with painted brick and has a plain tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a hipped roof, one hipped dormer, and chimney stacks located at the rear center and projecting from the left end. The windows are arranged irregularly, with four glazing bar sash windows on the first floor and six on the ground floor, including two on the left that have cornice heads. There is also a catslide outshot window to the left. Structural elements such as dragon beams and a screens passage indicate its Wealden style, with a ceiling and stack added when a 17th-century timber-framed wing was constructed at the rear, which now serves as the entrance.
Local climate
The Firs sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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