The Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
The Firs
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-glass-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Firs, 8, High Street, Kingswood, GL12 8RS
- OS grid reference
- ST 746 919
- Coordinates
- 51.62538, -2.36715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Firs is a house in a terrace, dating from the early to mid-18th century. It has a roughcast exterior and an imitation stone slate roof, with a brick end stack on the left topped with stone capping. The building features a moulded wood dentil cornice. It has a single front range and a rear range that forms an L-shape, with three storeys. The front has three windows, which are plate glass sashes set in moulded wood frames, each adorned with triple keystones. There are two similar windows on the ground floor, along with a doorcase on the right. This doorcase has a large flat panelled wooden hood supported by scrolled brackets, and the door itself consists of six fielded panels set in a recess, topped by a plain fanlight. The second-floor windows are smaller plate glass sashes without keystones, positioned directly below the eaves.
Local climate
The Firs receives an average of 810 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 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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