The Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. House.
The Firs
- WRENN ID
- pitched-beam-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Firs, Moorlands Road, Merriott
- OS grid reference
- ST 441 120
- Coordinates
- 50.90522, -2.79537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Firs is a detached house dating from the 19th century, with a 20th-century extension. It may have been designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, who also designed the nearby Moorlands. The building is constructed from cut and squared ham stone, with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof featuring stepped coped gables and brick chimney stacks at each end. It has two storeys and a south-west elevation with three bays plus one additional bay, positioned at right angles to the road. The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered recesses, with two-light configurations and labels. The second bay on the first floor has a simpler chamfered two-light window without a label. The lower second bay features a boarded door topped by a three-pane rectangular fanlight, which is sheltered by a small timber hood. The east gable was extended by one bay in the 20th century. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Firs receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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