20, Highfield Road B15 is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Villa. 9 related planning applications.
20, Highfield Road B15
- WRENN ID
- haunted-transept-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 20, Highfield Road B15, B15 3DU
- OS grid reference
- SP 053 856
- Coordinates
- 52.46835, -1.92298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 Highfield Road is a large detached stucco villa built around 1840. It stands two storeys tall and has a square three-bay plan, with its main entrance facing Westbourne Crescent and a rear entrance added around 1855 along Highfield Road. The main elevations feature a plinth, quoin pilasters, and a first-floor plat band. The flat eaves extend forward over the pilasters. The hipped slate roof is topped with stucco chimney stacks.
The first-floor windows are set in architrave surrounds with cornices supported by consoles. On the entrance front, the ground floor has a former doorway that has been converted into a window, flanked by canted bays that likely date from around 1855. These bays feature dentil cornices and faceted keystones. The current arched entrance is located in a single-storey annexe with reset panelled reveals.
The garden fronts to the south-west and north-west have French windows in architrave surrounds on the ground floor, which are screened by fine verandahs made of cast iron. The south-west verandah has eight bays, while the north-west has five bays, both topped with leaded tent roofs and decorated with scrollwork and coupled standards with openwork entablatures. The wing added around 1855 on Highfield Road includes four windows in architrave surrounds and a billiard room situated above the former coach house.
Local climate
20, Highfield Road B15 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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- 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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