The Firs and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1989. House, barn.
The Firs and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- fallen-spire-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1989
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- The Firs and Attached Barn, Main Road, Clanfield
- OS grid reference
- SP 285 019
- Coordinates
- 51.71584, -1.58806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Firs and attached barn is a house and barn located on Clanfield Main Road, dating from around 1792, as indicated by a datestone on the barn, with 19th-century additions and alterations. The house is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble and features alternating angle quoins, topped with a stone slate roof. It has a three-window front, with mid-19th-century horned eight-paned sash windows that have chamfered wood lintels. The central entrance consists of a flush six-panel door, with the upper panels now glazed, and is sheltered by a light iron porch adorned with a 19th-century fleur-de-lys cresting, which is said to have been added in the 20th century. The house has integral end stacks with red brick shafts, with the right stack rendered.
To the rear right, there is a 19th-century two-storey lean-to that connects the main range to a formerly separate single-storey gabled outbuilding, which served as a wash-house. The attached barn on the left features a 20th-century garage door on the right and infilled openings on the left. The left gable end of the barn displays the datestone "H/IS/1792". Inside the house, there are chamfered spine beams in the ground-floor rooms, along with an inglenook fireplace on the left. The roof structure consists of a double-purlin collar and tie-beam roof spanning five bays. The barn has a double-purlin collar truss roof in three bays, with the right truss also featuring a tie-beam.
Local climate
The Firs and Attached Barn receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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