Apsley House is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1970. Villa. 2 related planning applications.
Apsley House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-facade-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1970
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Apsley House, 39, Wellington Road B15, B15 2ES
- OS grid reference
- SP 061 850
- Coordinates
- 52.46345, -1.91034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Apsley House is a substantial and impressive Grecian stucco villa built between 1825 and 1830. It is set well back from the road and approached by a drive that leads to a carriage sweep. The villa features two tall storeys with a symmetrical three-bay front. The ground floor is built out with a plinth and channelling on either side of the porch. The first floor has a slightly advanced centre, with an eaves cornice and parapet, and a triangular plain pediment at the centre. The gable end has a slate roof, treated as moulded pediments, and there are corniced stucco chimneys with ornamental pots. The ground floor has plain revealed sash windows, while the first-floor windows are surrounded by architraves and fitted with shutters, featuring widely spaced glazing bars.
The porch, flanked by the built-out ground floor, is supported by fluted Ionic columns between square piers, which hold up an entablature with a balustraded front parapet and solid sides. A link wall on the north side has a projecting section under a plain pediment, connecting to a two-storey former coach house that has a moulded pediment. Extending north of the coach house is a downswept wall that ends in pyramid-capped gate piers leading to the service yard.
Local climate
Apsley 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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