Christchurch House is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1970. Commercial. 9 related planning applications.
Christchurch House
- WRENN ID
- odd-entrance-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1970
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Christchurch House, 30, Waterloo Street B2, B2 5TJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 067 869
- Coordinates
- 52.48003, -1.90173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christchurch House, built around 1830, is a Grade II listed building located on Waterloo Street in the City Centre. This three-storey structure features a stucco exterior and consists of 13 bays arranged in a curve, partially overlooking Victoria Square. The ground floor is rusticated and includes an archway leading into Waterloo Passage, along with five doors set within moulded eared cases that have battered sides and prominent moulded cornices. The first floor has windows with blank panels below, framed by tall moulded eared surrounds that rest on a broad band, topped with cornices supported by brackets. The second floor windows are also in moulded eared surrounds. All windows are sash style and retain their glazing bars. The building is capped with a dentilled moulded eaves cornice.
Local climate
Christchurch House 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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