Bird Grove House is a Grade II* listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1974. House. 1 related planning application.

Bird Grove House

WRENN ID
tangled-shingle-ochre
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Coventry
Constituency
Coventry East MP: Mary Creagh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1974
Type
House
Address
Bird Grove House, 9, George Eliot Road, CV1 4HT
OS grid reference
SP 337 803
Coordinates
52.42004, -1.50521
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bird Grove House is a Grade II* listed building located at No. 9 George Eliot Road. This house was home to the novelist George Eliot, also known as Mary Ann Evans, from March 1841 to May 1849. The building is constructed of stucco and features a Welsh slated roof. It has two storeys and includes sash windows, with a canted bay facing the road. The main elevation is on the side and has a projecting wing that contains a recessed porch, which is arched and has radiating glazing bars in the fanlight above the door. There is a lower wing on the east side elevation, and some of the windows have glazing bars.

Local climate

Bird Grove House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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