Dial House is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Dial House
- WRENN ID
- calm-gravel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dial House, Warwick Road, Chadwick End, B93 0ED
- OS grid reference
- SP 195 749
- Coordinates
- 52.37246, -1.71398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial House is a late 16th century building with an T-shaped main block, featuring additions from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed from timber frame and red brick, topped with a tiled roof. The house has two storeys and attics, measuring three bays in length. The central first floor overhangs and has a jettied gable head, with each side displaying a moulded beam on brackets and a restored oriel window flanked by four-light windows. To the west, there is a lower extension that includes an attic window and a jettied gable head supported by a moulded beam. At the back, there is a gabled wing from the 17th century. The chimney stack has a geometrical plan, and there is an 18th-century sundial present.
Local climate
Dial House 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 — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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