56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. House.
56, High Street
- WRENN ID
- tenth-buttress-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield MP: Sir Andrew Mitchell (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- 56, High Street, Sutton Coldfield
- OS grid reference
- SP 120 965
- Coordinates
- 52.56671, -1.82312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 High Street is an early 18th-century building constructed of red brick with stone dressings. It features a machine-tiled roof adorned with cavetto and ovolo stone cornice mouldings, along with three pedimented dormers. The building has a plinth and stands two storeys high with attics, and a brick band runs along the first floor. There are six sash windows with glazing bars set in broad frames beneath painted lintels, each with moulded keystones. The entrance includes a door with a rectangular fanlight that also has glazing bars, framed by panelled pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice hood. To the right, there is an elliptical arch with a keystone. Nos. 42 to 52 (even) and No. 56 form a group.
Local climate
56, High Street 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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