St Clears is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. House. 8 related planning applications.
St Clears
- WRENN ID
- pale-casement-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Clears, 79, Farquhar Road B15, B15 2QP
- OS grid reference
- SP 047 842
- Coordinates
- 52.45598, -1.93217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Clears is a house of 1914, built in the Arts and Crafts style for J E By and designed by W H Bidlake. The house is constructed of purple brick with accents of red brick, yellow stone, and tile hanging, topped with a tiled roof. It is two storeys high with an attic, arranged with three gabled bays, the two outer bays projecting forward. The front facade, facing Farquhar Road, presents a formal character distinct from the more relaxed design of the garden front. The ground floor features a four-light transomed window, a narrow three-light window, a doorway within a simple moulded surround, and another three-light transomed window. The first floor has a three-light window, two cross-windows arranged within an arcade featuring polychromatic brick tympana, a small two-light window, and a further three-light window. Most of the windows have leaded lights, with particularly elaborate detailing in the central bay. The central gable contains two two-light casements with leaded lights set between bands of tilework. Inside, a staircase leads to a groin-vaulted bedroom passage.
Local climate
St Clears 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 — 6 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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