Giles House is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. House. 3 related planning applications.
Giles House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-storey-saffron
- 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
- Giles House, 83, Harborne Road B15, B15 3HG
- OS grid reference
- SP 051 858
- Coordinates
- 52.47053, -1.9258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Giles House is an Italianate house built around 1855, located on the north side of Harborne Road in Harborne, Birmingham. It is notable for being the birthplace of Sir Austin Chamberlain, who lived from 1836 to 1937. The house is constructed of red brick with stucco quoins on either side and features a slate roof. It has a prominent moulded plinth.
The ground floor windows are round-arched, adorned with stucco capitals and gauged brick voussoirs, set within brick relieving arches that have stuccoed keystones. The first-floor windows are four-centred, also featuring gauged brick voussoirs and resting on a moulded stucco sill band. There is a panelled eaves frieze supported by brackets.
To the right of the main façade, there is an entrance porch with an openwork iron arch and a fanlight. A corrugated iron lean-to extends along the passage, which is four bays long and has similar openwork iron arches on the sides. The door is located within a single-storeyed brick vestibule.
Local climate
Giles House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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