68 and 68a, Harborne Road B15 is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Villa.
68 and 68a, Harborne Road B15
- WRENN ID
- veiled-frieze-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- SP 049 857
- Coordinates
- 52.46925, -1.9291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 68 and 68A on Harborne Road is a Grade II listed building, a small villa built around 1840 with three bays, which was enlarged between 1855 and 1860. The new addition, which became the main house, is located at the corner, while the original part (No 68A) serves as the service wing. The original section features a symmetrical façade with a plat band and a central doorway topped by a fanlight, and it has a hipped slate roof with revealed glazing bar sash windows.
The 1855-60 Italianate addition is taller and also faced with stucco, featuring a plinth, rusticated quoins, and an applied parapet above the ground floor cornice. The elevation facing Harborne Road is asymmetrical, with a broad external chimney stack on the right and an off-centre pilastered porch that has a pilastered archivolt arched window above it. To the left, there is a low set fan of similar windows. The southwest return has two similar windows on the left above a pilastered tripartite rectangular bay window with a pent roof. The southeast garden front showcases a triple group of archivolt arched windows, eared architrave sash windows, and a large window with a bracketed cornice. The original house on this front features glazing bar sashes and a well-designed geometrical trellis verandah.
Local climate
68 and 68a, Harborne Road B15 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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