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

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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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