2, KEY HILL (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Former houses, shop.
2, KEY HILL (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- unlit-minaret-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Former houses, shop
- OS grid reference
- SP 060 882
- Coordinates
- 52.49232, -1.91246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 17, 18, and 19 Hockley Hill, which includes No 2 Key Hill, is a range of buildings dating from around 1820. Originally three houses, the center was rebuilt in the early 20th century as ironmonger's showrooms, featuring a glazed front divided into three bays on each floor. The two unaltered flanking houses are three storeys tall, constructed of red brick with hipped slate roofs.
The ground floor showcases early to mid-15th century shop fronts, with No 17 featuring a plaster-framed design that includes arcaded lights, fascias, and moulded cornices. Each upper floor has three sash windows, with the glazing bars intact on the first floor. The windows have stucco heads adorned with rosettes and small flanking consoles beneath shallow cornices. The second-floor windows are topped with flat stucco arches that have grooved voussoirs and keystones.
No 17 also has a narrow splayed corner with a pilastered doorway and a keyed archivolt above the fanlight. There is a pilastered shop window on the return, which leads to the entrance of No 2 Key Hill, with glazing bar sashes to the left, featuring grooved stucco flat arches and keystones on both the first and second floors.
Local climate
2, KEY HILL (See details for further address information) 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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