Blythe House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1976. Farmhouse.
Blythe House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hollow-turret-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Blythe House Farmhouse, Barston Lane, Balsall
- OS grid reference
- SP 217 782
- Coordinates
- 52.40152, -1.68147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blythe House Farmhouse is a building that underwent early to mid 19th century remodelling, originally constructed in the late 17th or early 18th century. It features colour washed brick and a hipped old tiled roof. The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with three lattice casement windows that have hexagonal panes, dripmoulds, and chamfered reveals. The central door is half glazed and similar in style to the windows.
Local climate
Blythe 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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