The Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Firs
- WRENN ID
- scattered-courtyard-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Firs, Bishop's Hull, TA4 1AE
- OS grid reference
- ST 194 250
- Coordinates
- 51.01924, -3.14936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Firs is an early 18th-century cottage that was altered in the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick with a painted facade and roughcast gabled ends, topped by a steeply pitched slate roof. The building retains remnants of a moulded cornice, with about nine courses of brickwork visible below the current eaves. There are brick stacks at the gable ends. The plan consists of two cells and a cross passage. The cottage is two storeys high and has three bays, featuring early 19th-century three-light leaded iron casements with quadrant stays. The ground floor has voussoirs above the segmental-headed window openings, and there is a central entrance door with a 20th-century rustic porch. The remains of the cornice suggest that the windows were originally dormers before the roof was raised. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Firs receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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