General Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. Post office.

General Post Office

WRENN ID
sombre-quartz-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Post office
Address
General Post Office, Victoria Square B3
OS grid reference
SP 067 868
Coordinates
52.47926, -1.90256
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The General Post Office, located at Victoria Square, was built between 1889 and 1891 by Sir Henry Tanner. It is constructed of stone and features a slate roof. The building has three storeys plus an attic and is designed with five bays, where the central bay is slightly advanced and showcases superimposed orders. The diagonal corner bays have pedimented entrances and also feature superimposed orders. The ground floor includes arched openings, while the first and second floors are adorned with cross windows. The structure boasts a lively skyline, highlighted by an arched window set within a pedimented attic, steeply pitched roofs with dormer windows, and corner polygonal turrets topped with pediments, small domes, and urns as finials.

Local climate

General Post Office 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 76% 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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