Gothic Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. House. 7 related planning applications.
Gothic Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-span-swallow
- 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
- Gothic Cottage, 391 and 393, Harborne Road B15, B15 3LB
- OS grid reference
- SP 040 849
- Coordinates
- 52.46221, -1.94146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gothic Cottage is an early to mid-19th century pair of semi-detached houses located on Harborne Road. The frontages are stuccoed, with brick returns and a slate roof featuring bargeboards. The houses are two storeys high, with three bays, the outer two bays being advanced and broadly gabled. The ground floor includes a later canted bay window, a door for No. 393, more canted bay windows, a door for No. 391, and an altered sash window. The doors are set within modest frames, each with a rectangular fanlight. The first floor has sash and casement windows with Gothic glazing bars in a pattern of 3:2:2 over 3:2:3.
Local climate
Gothic 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 — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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