The Firs is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1981. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
The Firs
- WRENN ID
- ruined-garret-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1981
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Firs, 1, Westerleigh Road, Downend and Bromley Heath, BS16 6AZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 652 767
- Coordinates
- 51.48894, -2.50193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th century villa located on Westerleigh Road, Downend. The exterior is rendered over a rubble core, with brick quoins providing definition. The roof is slate, hipped, and features projecting eaves and a central chimney stack. The facade is characterised by glazing bar sashes, with one window blind on the ground floor to the left. A central doorway is topped by an open pediment supported on three-quarter columns, with urn reliefs decorating the frieze of the capitals. The doorway has a six-panel door and a later traceried fanlight. A lower two-storey extension is visible to the right, and a taller extension was added to the rear at a later date. The interior features a large central hall.
Local climate
The Firs receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater 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, 14 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 — 71 transactions since 1995
- 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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