Old School House the Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1994. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old School House the Firs
- WRENN ID
- hidden-shingle-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old School House the Firs, Chelwood, BS39 4NW
- OS grid reference
- ST 634 619
- Coordinates
- 51.35531, -2.5258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of attached houses, dating from the mid-18th century, with later 20th-century alterations, and incorporating some earlier building to the rear. The houses are constructed of rubble, rendered, with slate roofs featuring gable stacks and pantiled roofs to the rear. Rear wings create a U-shaped plan. The Old School House, on the left, is two storeys high with two windows. It features sash windows in raised architraves with cills; a round-headed architrave frames the 4-panelled and glazed front door, which has a blocked fanlight. The render is lined, with raised long and short quoins, and the eaves are supported by corbels. The Firs, to the right, is also two storeys high and has two windows, similar in style to the Old School House, except that it has two ground-floor windows instead of one, and a 6-panelled front door with decorative leading in the fanlight. The left return has a 2-light casement window at ground floor, a door, and a single light window at first floor. The right return is hipped to the right and has a single-storey lean-to in the angle with a rear wing, along with a 2-light casement window at first floor. The rear of the Old School House includes a two-storey 18th-century wing, forming a two-span roof, a 20th-century window, a single-storey 20th-century addition, and a single-storey lean-to between the wings, containing two 2-light casements. The rear of The Firs features two 2-light casements at both ground and first floors, along with a single-storey lean-to to the left containing a 20th-century door. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Old School House the Firs receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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