Vine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bromsgrove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1986. House. 5 related planning applications.
Vine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-clay-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromsgrove
- Constituency
- Bromsgrove MP: Bradley Thomas (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vine Cottage, 16 and 18, Bear Hill, Alvechurch, B48 7JX
- OS grid reference
- SP 027 726
- Coordinates
- 52.35153, -1.96071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vine Cottage is a house, now divided into two, dating from the early 19th century. It was partly rebuilt in the late 19th century and has some alterations from the late 20th century. The building is constructed of brick and features a hipped slate roof. It stands two storeys high and has a dentilled brick cornice.
The structure has projecting wings on both the left and right sides, with the left wing being rebuilt in the late 19th century. The right wing is three storeys tall and has a window arrangement of one, two, and one, with glazing bar sashes set under segmental lintels that include key stones and impost blocks. On the ground floor, the left wing features a semi-elliptical arch over a garage entrance, also with a keystone, followed by two windows that match the style above. The central entrance to the main range has a stone doorcase supported by two engaged Doric columns, with paterae in the entablature and a moulded cornice; the door itself is from the 20th century. In the right-hand corner of the right wing (No 16), there is another entrance with a stone doorcase featuring fluted pilasters and a 20th-century panelled door. The lintels of the windows are typical of the 1820s in Birmingham.
Local climate
Vine Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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