Hill Grove House at King Charles I High School is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1980. A C19 House. 4 related planning applications.
Hill Grove House at King Charles I High School
- WRENN ID
- hollow-timber-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Grove House at King Charles I High School, Chester Road South, Kidderminster, DY10 1XA
- OS grid reference
- SO 842 761
- Coordinates
- 52.38317, -2.23339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Grove House at King Charles I High School is a substantial detached former house built around 1800 to 1820, with later additions from the mid-19th century. The building has two storeys and is constructed of red brick, featuring a symmetrical five-bay entrance where the central three bays are slightly advanced and topped with a pediment. It has a moulded stone cornice and parapet, along with a stone plinth. The hipped slate roof is complemented by plain brick chimney stacks.
The windows are revealed glazing bar sashes with thin stone cills, and they are adorned with slightly cambered reeded stone arches that include keystones. The central first-floor window features a cornice and entablature supported by console brackets, extending down to form a French casement that connects to the roof of a coupled Tuscan column porch. The entrance has double doors with glazed upper panels, and there are cast iron railings on the roof of the porch. Originally, the house had a depth of three bays on the north side with a lower service wing. The south side was later extended to seven bays in a similar style around 1860 to 1870, featuring plastered bow windows on the ground floor, with the central lights designed as marginal glazed French casements.
Local climate
Hill Grove House at King Charles I High School receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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