Fir Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Fir Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-pinnacle-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fir Tree Cottage, Pen Selwood, BA9 8LE
- OS grid reference
- ST 741 298
- Coordinates
- 51.06725, -2.37052
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located in the parish of Pen Selwood, near Leigh Common. The cottage is constructed of local stone rubble, with a colourwashed finish, and has a Welsh slate roof with plain gables. Brick chimney stacks mark the ends. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. It features 16-pane sash windows set within segmental arched openings, with externally boarded shutters on all windows. Between the windows is a four-panel door, partly glazed, sheltered by a timber and plain tiled hood with wavy edged bargeboards. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Fir Tree Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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