8, New Road is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Toll house.
8, New Road
- WRENN ID
- leaning-hall-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton South East MP: Pat McFadden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- Toll house
- OS grid reference
- SO 963 983
- Coordinates
- 52.58329, -2.05542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 New Road is a turnpike toll house built around 1820. It is constructed of painted brick and features an overhanging hipped slate roof. The building stands two storeys tall, with its south facade facing the road showing some alterations. The ground floor has a late 20th-century shop front and door, while the first floor contains a late 20th-century window set within an earlier opening. The left-hand return wall consists of two bays, with the left bay angled back. The windows are adorned with flat brick hoods, Tudor arches, and Gothick glazing. The door, located to the left of the right-hand window, also features a Tudor arch and is ribbed with Gothick tracery at the top. A chimney is positioned on the ridge of the roof.
Local climate
8, New Road receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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