Victoria House is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. House, flats. 3 related planning applications.
Victoria House
- WRENN ID
- lone-clay-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- House, flats
- Address
- Victoria House, 1, Stourport Road, Bewdley, DY12 1BA
- OS grid reference
- SO 788 753
- Coordinates
- 52.37606, -2.312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Victoria House is a building that has been converted into flats. It was originally constructed in 1735, with some alterations made in the late 19th century and mid-20th century. The house is made of brick and features a hipped tile roof. It stands three storeys tall and has a stone-coped parapet.
The façade includes five windows, which are boxed glazing bar sashes. The outer two windows and the central window are blind, all featuring segmental heads. On the second floor, there are 9-pane boxed sashes under rubbed brick heads, with blind windows below. The ground floor has four windows, also boxed glazing bar sashes under segmental heads, with the leftmost window being blind.
The central entrance is approached by three stone steps and features a pilastered wooden doorcase. It has a 20th-century lean-to canopy supported by wooden brackets and a 20th-century glazed door. To the left of the central window, there is a lead drainpipe of square section with decorative fixing plates, and the rainwater head is inscribed with "1735/ B / IA".
Local climate
Victoria House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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