The Alders is a Grade II listed building in the Tamworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Alders
- WRENN ID
- lunar-lantern-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tamworth
- Constituency
- Tamworth MP: Sarah Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Alders, Lichfield Road, B79 7SF
- OS grid reference
- SK 190 046
- Coordinates
- 52.63967, -1.71926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Alders is a house that has been converted into a day nursery. It was built in the late 18th century, with a mid-19th century addition. The structure is made of brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof, which includes a brick cross-axial stack and an end stack. The building has a double-depth, central-staircase layout and stands two stories high, presenting a symmetrical three-window facade.
There are ground and first floor sill bands, a top cornice, and a stone-coped brick parapet, with the outer windows set in forward projections. The round-headed entrance features a doorcase with pilasters and an open pediment, topped by a fanlight with decorative glazing bars above a six-panel door. The ground floor includes canted bay windows with plastered parapets and four-pane horned sashes. The first-floor windows have rubbed brick flat arches with keystones above plate-glass horned sashes.
To the left, there is a mid-19th century two-storey wing that shares similar architectural details, including brick sill bands and a top cogged frieze. Its windows have brick cambered arches, with the first-floor windows featuring twelve-pane sashes. The rear of the building has a gabled wing. The interior has not been inspected. The Alders is part of the same build as Tame House.
Local climate
The Alders 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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