The Templars is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1976. A C17 House.
The Templars
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Templars, Balsall Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 222 772
- Coordinates
- 52.39245, -1.67497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Templars is a 17th-century building located on Balsall Street. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick nogging and an old tiled roof. The building has a rectangular plan with a later brick addition at the north end. It stands two storeys high and includes lattice casement windows, as well as some 19th-century casements with glazing bars. There are two gabled half dormers on the right side and a gabled wooden porch.
Local climate
The Templars 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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