Hobbe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1972. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Hobbe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-landing-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hobbe Cottage, Balsall Street, CV7 7AP
- OS grid reference
- SP 231 766
- Coordinates
- 52.38697, -1.66142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hobbe Cottage is a timber-frame building with whitewashed brick detailing, dating to an unknown period. It has a thatched roof with a projecting gable on the left side. The cottage is single-storied with attics, and features lattice casement windows. A door hood is also present. It was formerly listed as "Thatched Cottage north side of Balsall street, 60 yds west of Station Road under Balsall Common".
Local climate
Hobbe 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
- 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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