The Firs is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Detached house.
The Firs
- WRENN ID
- last-chimney-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- The Firs, Lower Odcombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 511 156
- Coordinates
- 50.93785, -2.6971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Firs is a detached house dating from the 17th century, possibly refronted in the 19th century. It features a ham stone ashlar facade, with coursed rubble on the sides and rear. The western portion has a Welsh slate roof, while the eastern side has plain clay tiles, which may have replaced thatch, and both ends and the center have stepped coped gables. There are brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and consists of five bays.
The first two bays have three-light horizontal-bar casement windows beneath stone lintels with false triple keystones, and there is a straight joint to the right. The remaining bays feature ovolo-mould mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses without labels, with three lights above and four lights below, likely from the 19th century. In the lower part of bay four, there is a six-panel door with toplights, situated in a deep reveal with a stone architrave. The west gable includes three-light ovolo-mould mullioned windows with labels on the ground and first floors, along with a blocked two-light window with a label in the attic, which appear to be from the 17th century. 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 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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