Metchley Abbey is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1952. Abbey. 3 related planning applications.
Metchley Abbey
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-newel-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1952
- Type
- Abbey
- Address
- Metchley Abbey, 93, Metchley Lane B17, B17 0JB
- OS grid reference
- SP 037 843
- Coordinates
- 52.45723, -1.94556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Metchley Abbey, located on Metchley Lane in Selly Oak, is an early 19th-century building with later 19th-century additions, designed in a Picturesque Gothic style. The structure has two storeys and features six bays, with the fourth bay projecting to include the porch. The outer bays have canted sides. Most windows are casements set in moulded surrounds, featuring Y- or intersecting tracery, except for the ground floor window in bay five, which is of Palladian type. The building has a parapet adorned with blank quatrefoils and triplets of pointed arches, along with polygonal chimney stacks. Inside, there is a groined vault in the entrance hall, Gothic fireplaces, and a staircase. To the left of the main building is a service wing. Notably, the artist David Cox frequently visited Metchley Abbey, and it was also home to A. E. Greeman, a historian of the Norman Conquest, and Sir Granville Bantock.
Local climate
Metchley Abbey 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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