Town Crier Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Town Crier Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-balcony-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Town Crier Cottage, Fen End Road, Balsall, CV8 1NW
- OS grid reference
- SP 219 757
- Coordinates
- 52.37957, -1.67947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Crier Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Balsall Fen End Road. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick nogging and a tiled roof, which has been damaged by fire. The cottage has a cross gable on the right side and is arranged over two storeys and attics. Modern casement windows have been installed.
Local climate
Town Crier Cottage 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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