Empire House is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1970. Commercial building.
Empire House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-gargoyle-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Empire House, 96, Edmund Street B3
- OS grid reference
- SP 066 870
- Coordinates
- 52.48112, -1.90292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Empire House is a late 19th-century building located on Edmund Street in the City Centre. It is constructed of red brick and terracotta and features a central stucco porch with coupled fluted Corinthian columns and a balcony above. The building has three storeys plus a basement and is five bays wide, with each bay on the top storey containing two lights. The ground and first floor windows are flanked by elongated brackets that support balconies for the first and second floor windows. The second floor windows are arched, and there is a balustrade along with a central pedimented attic. This building is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Empire 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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