44, Waterloo Street B2 is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1981. A C20 Commercial. 7 related planning applications.
44, Waterloo Street B2
- WRENN ID
- hushed-ashlar-snow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1981
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 44, Waterloo Street B2, B2 5QB
- OS grid reference
- SP 069 869
- Coordinates
- 52.48065, -1.8997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 44 Waterloo Street is a Grade II* listed building dating from around 1900, designed in a Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a five-storey structure featuring three bays arranged in a rhythm of 1:2, along with a polygonal corner turret that has an entrance below. There are an additional four bays on the return side facing Temple Row West.
The ground floor includes a subsidiary entrance accessed by steps, framed within a cusped and sub-cusped arch topped with a finial, and flanked by two cusped and sub-cusped arched windows. The principal entrance is also elevated by steps and is flanked by two orders of colonnettes, adorned with delicate decoration in the stilted arches. On either side of the entrance, polygonal shafts support beasts bearing shields inscribed with the letters O and A.
Each of the first, second, and third floors features three cross windows with cusped lights, positioned between horizontal moulded bands that vary in detail. The fourth floor is distinguished by three two-light ogee-headed windows. Thin banded polygonal buttresses rise on either side of the first bay, reaching nearly to the parapet height, while even thinner moulded shafts extend similarly on the left, right, and between the other bays. The polygonal corner turret and the return on Temple Row West are similarly fenestrated. All windows above the ground and first floors retain their original leaded lights. The parapet is topped with a complex gable-cum-chimney, and the corner turret features a pointed slate roof.
Local climate
44, Waterloo Street B2 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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