The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1976. A Late C19 or early C20 House. 4 related planning applications.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- deep-beam-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield MP: Sir Andrew Mitchell (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1976
- Type
- House
- Period
- Late C19 or early C20
- Address
- The Homestead, 11, Digby Road, Sutton Coldfield, B73 6HG
- OS grid reference
- SP 115 955
- Coordinates
- 52.55777, -1.83059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a building from the late 19th century or early 20th century, designed by C E Bateman in a modified Tudor style. It features a red brick and ashlar ground floor, with a plaster first floor that includes half-timbering. The roof is tiled and has projecting gables at both ends of the front. The building is two storeys high with attics, and the centre of the first floor is recessed behind a pentice roofed ground floor. The windows are mostly casement style with glazing bars, and some have lattice. There is a studded door set in a four-centred arch.
Local climate
The Homestead receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 1995
- 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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