Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Junction House is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1988. House, toll house.
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Junction House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Tamworth MP: Sarah Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1988
- Type
- House, toll house
- Address
- Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Junction House, Tamworth
- OS grid reference
- SK 203 020
- Coordinates
- 52.61561, -1.70088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Junction House is a house built around 1840. It is constructed of brick with ashlar and plaster dressings and features a hipped slate roof with brick stacks. The building has an L-plan layout and is two storeys high, presenting a symmetrical three-window range that includes a large full-height canted bay. A cornice runs along the top of the structure. The entrance, located on the right side of the bay, features a doorcase with a consoled cornice and a six-fielded-panel door. The ground floor windows have rusticated wedge lintels with keystones above 12-pane sash windows, while the bay has a tripartite window with a frieze and cornice above horned sashes arranged in a pattern of 8:12:8 panes. On the first floor, there are 9-pane sashes, and the bay has a tripartite window with 6:12:6-pane sashes. An iron plate displaying the number 261 is positioned between the windows of the bay. The house has a cross-axial stack in the bay and two stacks at the rear. This Junction House is situated at the intersection of the Coventry Canal with the Fazeley to Birmingham and Fazeley to Whittington branches of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, and it may have functioned as a toll house at this significant junction.
Local climate
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Junction House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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