17, Barker Road is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1976. House. 4 related planning applications.
17, Barker Road
- WRENN ID
- sombre-render-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield MP: Sir Andrew Mitchell (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, Barker Road, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2NY
- OS grid reference
- SP 117 972
- Coordinates
- 52.57299, -1.82867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 Barker Road is a building constructed in 1898, designed by architect W H Bidlake, and showcases a modified Arts and Crafts style. It is built of red brick with stone dressings and features a tiled roof that includes two front gables. The central section of the building is recessed and has a parapet with a segmental headed dormer. The structure has two storeys and attics, with flush set leaded casement windows that have wooden mullions and transoms. It also includes red brick chimney stacks with diagonally set shafts. The central bay of the building is two storeys high, featuring a ground floor porch and a first floor canted oriel window. On the west side, there is an open loggia at ground level supported by slim Doric columns with mutules.
Local climate
17, Barker Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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