Bushwood is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Villa.
Bushwood
- WRENN ID
- errant-lancet-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Bushwood, 32, St James's Road B15
- OS grid reference
- SP 060 856
- Coordinates
- 52.46848, -1.91216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bushwood is a large two-storey villa located on St James's Road in Edgbaston, dating from around 1830. The villa is set back from the road and features a carriage sweep. Originally, it had a symmetrical three-bay front, but a bowed end wing was added to the left side, likely around 1835. The original front includes a plinth and a first-floor sill band, with modillion brackets supporting the eaves of the hipped slate roof. The windows are revealed glazing bar sashes.
The villa has a large enclosed porch adorned with a triglyph frieze and a modillion cornice, featuring an arched entrance with sidelights, a panelled door beneath a moulded cornice, and a lunette fanlight. The extensions also have hipped slate roofs. The bowed end wing is parapeted and includes a first-floor stringcourse, with a tripartite sash window on the ground floor of the bow. To the right, there is a two-storey canted bay window from around 1840, which matches the original house in terms of windows, stringcourse, and eaves cornice, but has a higher hipped roof.
Additionally, there is a long low wing to the right that is three windows wide. A long service wing extends to the rear, featuring dentil eaves and glazing bar casements, and is screened by a yard wall with gate piers.
Local climate
Bushwood receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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