Wigan House is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1955. House.

Wigan House

WRENN ID
seventh-cobalt-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Coventry
Constituency
Coventry North West MP: Taiwo Owatemi (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1955
Type
House
Address
Wigan House, 71, Birmingham Road
OS grid reference
SP 300 806
Coordinates
52.42286, -1.55895
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wigan House is a mid-18th century building located on Birmingham Road in Allesley. It is constructed of red brick and features a machine-tiled roof with a dentilled brick cornice. The house has two storeys and attics, with four later flush casement windows that have glazing bars, all set under flat arches. There is a blocked central window and a restored gabled dormer. The entrance is a recessed door with a rectangular fanlight and a bracketed hood. At the rear, there are three gables. Wigan House is part of a group that includes Nos 67 to 73 (odd).

Local climate

Wigan 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 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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