Low Wood is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. House. 7 related planning applications.
Low Wood
- WRENN ID
- western-cellar-grain
- 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
- Low Wood, 32 and 32a, St Mary's Road B17, B17 0HA
- OS grid reference
- SP 033 841
- Coordinates
- 52.45512, -1.95182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Wood is a house built in 1910 and designed by E F Reynolds. It has since been subdivided into numbers 32 and 32A. The house is constructed of red brick with some polychrome diaperwork, and has a stone tiled roof. It is five bays wide, with the two outer bays projecting forward. The left and right sides have brick quoins. The outer bays are two storeys high, with a three-light gabled dormer window in the roof above the centre. The left outer bay has a ground floor canted bay window with lozenges in the woodwork and a flat roof. The right outer bay features a four-light window with transom, and above this, two three-light windows with transoms. The roughcast tympana above these upper windows each contain a central lozenge. The central bays are separated by brick pilasters, which, along with the first-floor brick band and eaves cornice, divide the facade into a series of compartments. The central doorway has a simple stone moulded surround and arched hood with lozenge decoration in the tympanum. Above the door are five three-light windows; the two lower windows have stone frames, while the three upper windows have wooden frames. All windows are casements with leaded lights, with more elaborate leading in the three central bays. A modern porch is attached to No 32A at the right angle. A coach house, in a similar style, is attached to the left side of the house and is also two storeys high.
Local climate
Low Wood receives an average of 790 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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