Premises at the Western Corner of Birmingham Road and Gloves Close is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1976. A C18 Commercial premises.
Premises at the Western Corner of Birmingham Road and Gloves Close
- WRENN ID
- sheer-cobble-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1976
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Premises at the Western Corner of Birmingham Road and Gloves Close, Meriden
- OS grid reference
- SP 242 820
- Coordinates
- 52.43578, -1.64441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at the western corner of Birmingham Road and Gloves Close is an 18th-century structure that has been altered. It features a colour-washed pebble-dash exterior and an old tiled roof. The building is two storeys high, with four casement windows with glazing bars and louvred shutters on the first floor. The ground floor has three wide shop windows designed in a Georgian style, and there is a band on the first floor. This building is included for its group value, as it is part of a collection that also includes The Bull's Head Hotel, The Nags Head, The Coach House, Brooklyn, and Waterfall Cottage.
Local climate
Premises at the Western Corner of Birmingham Road and Gloves Close receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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