St Benedict's Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1997. Vicarage.

St Benedict's Vicarage

WRENN ID
far-alcove-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Yardley MP: Jess Phillips (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 October 1997
Type
Vicarage
Address
St Benedict's Vicarage, 55, Hob Moor Road
OS grid reference
SP 109 862
Coordinates
52.47436, -1.83995
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Benedict's Vicarage is a vicarage for the Church of St Benedict, built between 1911 and 1912 by the architectural firm Nicol and Nicol of Birmingham. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring some burnt headers, and has a clay plain tile roof with sprocketted eaves that wrap around brick-coped gables. It includes brick axial and gable-end stacks with corbelled brick caps.

The architectural style is Domestic Revival, and the plan is L-shaped. The main range has three principal rooms on the south front, with the entrance located on the west side leading to a stair hall at the back. There is a kitchen wing at the rear right, which includes an integral outhouse range.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a symmetrical three-bay south front where the central gabled bay projects. The ground floor features 4-light stone mullion windows set in large round arch recesses with blind tympana, while the first floor has small 2-light windows under the eaves and a 3-light window in the projecting central bay, topped with a brick cross crosslet in the gable above. The windows are metal framed with leaded panes and have brick corbelled cills.

On the west side, there is a recessed brick round arch doorway to the left and three-light windows above, also with round arches and blind tympana. The rear elevation is asymmetrically fenestrated, with two similarly arched windows on the right and a lower service wing on the left. The east side features a large projecting stack on the gable end with weathered set-offs and a similarly arched window on the first floor, along with a service wing projecting on the right.

The interior has not been inspected but is reputed to have intact joinery, including a partly panelled hall and staircase.

Local climate

St Benedict's Vicarage 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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