23 and 23a, Highfield Road is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Villas. 4 related planning applications.
23 and 23a, Highfield Road
- WRENN ID
- sunken-frieze-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Villas
- Address
- 23 and 23a, Highfield Road, Edgbaston B15, B15 3DP
- OS grid reference
- SP 053 856
- Coordinates
- 52.46912, -1.92282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 23 and 23A on Highfield Road are a pair of substantial two-storey stucco villas built around 1840, showcasing classical and Italianate architectural details. Originally designed as identical structures with a recessed link bay, No 23 underwent alterations around 1865. Both villas feature three-bay fronts, with a channelled ground floor, a first-floor sill course, a frieze, a moulded cornice, and a parapet.
The modifications to No 23 include two two-storey canted bays adorned with composite pilasters, a dentil course entablature that spans the ground floor, and composite columns flanking the doorway. It also has modillion brackets on the main cornice and a pierced parapet. In contrast, No 24 retains its original architrave-framed windows, which have splayed feet on the ground floor plinth, and an eared architrave doorcase set in a panelled strip frame with stepped console brackets supporting the moulded cornice.
Additionally, the south-east flank of No 23 features an Italianate wing from around 1850, characterized by rusticated quoins, a panelled chimney breast situated between two French windows with dentil cornices, and archivolt arched windows on the first floor.
Local climate
23 and 23a, Highfield Road 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 — 4 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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