Blythe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Blythe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-plaster-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blythe Cottage, Barston Lane
- OS grid reference
- SP 202 783
- Coordinates
- 52.40281, -1.70348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blythe Cottage is an early 17th-century building located on the south side of Barston Lane. It features a timber frame with later red brick nogging and an old tiled roof with side gables. The cottage has two storeys and an attic, with lattice casement windows. The ground floor includes canted bays with tiled roofs, while the first floor has canted oriel bay windows. A wooden gabled porch adds to the entrance, and there is a lower back wing. A distinctive rusticated arched panelled red brick chimneystack is situated astride the roof ridge.
Local climate
Blythe Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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