Firs House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Firs House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-mantel-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Firs House, Upper Common, Kington Langley, SN15 5PE
- OS grid reference
- ST 920 767
- Coordinates
- 51.48963, -2.11572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Firs House is an early 19th-century house, altered around 1900. It is constructed of rubble stone, rendered to the front with flush ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate roof with end stacks. The property is two storeys and has an attic. The front facade features a three-window arrangement. A large, around 1900, ashlar canted bay window is on the left-hand side, with a coped, shouldered gable and mullion windows with eight-pane casements. The original part of the house has a six-panel door with a twelve-pane sash window above, and sixteen-pane sash windows on each floor to the right, set within flush ashlar surrounds. The west end wall displays traces of earlier stonework. An around 1900 addition is present at the east end. A parallel rear range features sixteen-pane sash windows, likely dating slightly later than the front range. Local accounts suggest a 1695 date stone may have been present (though this has not been observed), and alterations were carried out in 1904.
Local climate
Firs House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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