Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Crawley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1983. House.

Fir Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
endless-merlon-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Crawley
Constituency
Crawley MP: Peter Lamb (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1983
Type
House
Address
Fir Tree Cottage, 50, London Road
OS grid reference
TQ 269 376
Coordinates
51.12409, -0.18758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fir Tree Cottage is a probable late 17th century timber-framed house located on the east side of London Road. The building has two storeys and runs east to west, featuring a hipped roof at the west end. The western part of the roof is tiled, while the rest is covered with Welsh slates. There are three brick chimneys on the structure. The south front has been refaced in stucco on the ground floor, with the first floor tile hung. The windows are wooden casements, some of which have modern leaded panes. The north front reveals partly exposed timber framing on the eastern half, while the western half is brick faced but painted to imitate timber framing. The thinness of the structural timbers suggests a construction date no earlier than around 1700. The cottage is marked as 'Crawley Workhouse' on a Tithe Map from around 1840.

Local climate

Fir Tree 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 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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