Oldwich House Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. Farmhouse.
Oldwich House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- woven-wall-elm
- 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
- Address
- Oldwich House Farmhouse, Oldwich Lane, Balsall
- OS grid reference
- SP 217 741
- Coordinates
- 52.36542, -1.6818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oldwich House Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building dating from the early 16th century, with alterations made over time. The farmhouse features a stone base, a red brick front, and a timber-framed back and east side. It has a tiled roof with tall chimneystacks and stands two storeys high, with a first-floor band and a projecting gable on the left. The windows are arranged in a 1:3 pattern, consisting of flush casement windows with wood mullions and transoms, while the ground floor has cambered arches. The left side of the building has a chimney breast with flush stone quoins and diagonally set shafts. There is a modern gabled porch with a nail-studded door. Inside, one room is lined with Elizabethan panelling featuring an enriched frieze, and there is an early 18th-century chimneypiece. The farmhouse is reputed to be the ancestral home of the Shakespeare family. Oldwich House Farmhouse and its barn form a group.
Local climate
Oldwich House 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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