Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. House. 8 related planning applications.
Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-cellar-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bell Cottage, Greenfield Road B17
- OS grid reference
- SP 035 844
- Coordinates
- 52.458, -1.94894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Cottage is an early 19th-century brick house located on Greenfield Road, Harborne. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a slate roof, flanked by chimneys, and featuring decorative bargeboards. The ground floor has a central modern door within a simple porch, which has a fanlight and a gable bargeboard matching the roof. There are two windows on the ground floor. The first floor has windows directly above those on the ground floor. All windows are two-light casements with glazing bars and 'Tudor' heads to the lights, set in canted reveals also with 'Tudor' heads.
Local climate
Bell Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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