3 and 4, Highfield Road B15 is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
3 and 4, Highfield Road B15
- WRENN ID
- veiled-quartz-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SP 050 859
- Coordinates
- 52.47142, -1.92686
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 3 and 4 Highfield Road are a pair of semi-detached villas built around 1830, showcasing late Regency architectural style. These two-storey buildings have a symmetrical design, featuring pediment gable wings that flank a central range with two broad bays and entrance bays at the corners. The ground floor is channelled and separated between the wings by an impressive seven-bay verandah, supported by scrolled iron plaster standards, with the ends over wider doorways. The roofs are covered with slate and have shallow eaves friezes.
The recessed central range has French casements that open onto the verandah. The arched doorways are topped with lunette fanlights that have a radial mouchette pattern. The first-floor windows of No 4 are simply revealed sashes, while No 3 features windows with splayed eared architraves. Both wings have moulded pediments and similar first-floor windows, but the ground floor has canted bay windows with pilasters and pent roofs, dating from around 1860. No 3 includes a slightly recessed service wing with two windows matching those of the main house and a downswept shaped parapet on the roof. The service wing of No 4 is set much further back and has been altered, retaining only the first-floor window. Notably, J.R.R. Tolkien lived at No 4 from 1910 to 1911.
Local climate
3 and 4, Highfield Road B15 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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