The Clock Tower Community Education Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Education centre. 17 related planning applications.
The Clock Tower Community Education Centre
- WRENN ID
- vast-nave-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Education centre
- Address
- The Clock Tower Community Education Centre, High Street B17
- OS grid reference
- SP 037 846
- Coordinates
- 52.45961, -1.94623
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower Community Education Centre, built around 1885 by Martin and Chamberlain, was originally constructed as a school. It features red brick and terracotta with minimal stone dressings, topped by a tiled roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles. The building has an asymmetrical design, consisting of one and two storeys across six bays, with a prominent tower in the third bay.
The first bay is No 106, the former master's house, which includes a ground floor canted bay window and a tripartite window on the first floor beneath a half-hipped roof. To the left, there is a gabled entrance bay with a pointed-arched door. The second bay is broad, gabled, and two storeys high, with ground and first floor windows separated by a band of decorative brickwork, set within a shallow pointed arched recess.
The clock tower serves as the main entrance to the school and features two tiers of lancet openings and clock faces beneath gablets that rise into the spire zone, which is topped with lucarnes and a fanciful finial. The fourth and fifth bays each contain broad pointed casement windows within gables that project into the roof. The sixth bay is two-storeyed with a half-hipped roof and predominantly pointed windows, varying in width.
Local climate
The Clock Tower Community Education Centre 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 17 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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