39-42 Cannon Street, including 9-15 Needless Alley is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1970. Building. 9 related planning applications.

39-42 Cannon Street, including 9-15 Needless Alley

WRENN ID
south-joist-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1970
Type
Building
Address
39-42 Cannon Street, including 9-15 Needless Alley, Needless Alley B2
OS grid reference
SP 069 868
Coordinates
52.47956, -1.8985
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

39-42 Cannon Street, including 9-15 Needless Alley, is a building dating from around 1900. It is similar in style to No 45 Cannon Street, suggesting it was also designed by the architectural firm Essex, Goodman and Nicol. The building is constructed of pink terracotta and has a slate roof. It stands four storeys high and features four bays that gently curve with the street. The ground floor has a modern shop front, while the first floor showcases canted bay windows that rise through two storeys and end in balconies. These windows are adorned with ause-de-panier arches and decorative, detached scroll-like elements, which are connected vertically by baluster-like shafts. The third floor contains paired arched lights set within ogee-cum-semi-circular pedimented attics that sit against the roof.

Local climate

39-42 Cannon Street, including 9-15 Needless Alley 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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  • 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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