Magpie Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. A Early Modern Farmhouse.
Magpie Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- eternal-clay-clover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Magpie Farmhouse, Longbrook Lane, Balsall
- OS grid reference
- SP 222 768
- Coordinates
- 52.3891, -1.67498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magpie Farmhouse is a mid-16th century building featuring a stone base with a close set timber frame and whitewashed plaster infilling. It has a tiled roof and a red brick chimney stack located at the ridge, complete with base and cap mouldings. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics, and both gables extend beyond the eaves level supported by console brackets. The first floor has flush lattice casement windows and canted bay oriel windows on console brackets under each gable end. There is a modern south wing added to the structure. Inside, the ground floor includes four-centred arched stone chimneypieces.
Local climate
Magpie Farmhouse 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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