The Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. House.
The Firs
- WRENN ID
- last-rotunda-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Firs, Ashill
- OS grid reference
- ST 321 174
- Coordinates
- 50.95226, -2.96768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Firs is a house located at the end of a row in Ashill Village, dating from the 18th century and modified over time. It is constructed of local stone rubble with a rendered and colourwashed facade, featuring brick dressings on the west gable and Ham stone dressings on the facade. The roof is made of Welsh slate and has stepped coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks.
The building is two storeys high and has three bays. It includes a plinth, a floor string, and a cill-band, as well as a cornice and a shallow parapet with moulded coving and plain side pilasters. The sash windows are set in architraves, with six panes above and twelve panes below, the latter arranged in pairs. In the lower bay two, there is a blocked doorway with an architrave that has a keystone and a small dentilled hood mould above it, along with an ashlar panel situated between this doorway and the first-floor window. The west gable appears to have been rebuilt, and there is an outshut at the rear. The interior has not been seen.
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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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