West Midlands Police Dog Training Section (Harborne Home Farmhouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Public building. 1 related planning application.
West Midlands Police Dog Training Section (Harborne Home Farmhouse)
- WRENN ID
- empty-basalt-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Public building
- Address
- West Midlands Police Dog Training Section (Harborne Home Farmhouse), Northfield Road B17, B17 0TD
- OS grid reference
- SP 022 834
- Coordinates
- 52.44932, -1.96842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Midlands Police Dog Training Section, also known as Harborne Home Farmhouse, is an early 19th-century building located on Northfield Road in Harborne, Birmingham. This two-storey structure features three bays and is constructed of red brick with a slate roof.
On the ground floor, there is a central door set within a pilastered doorcase, flanked on either side by a single window that has a minimum pediment supported by scrolls. The first floor contains three windows, with the central window being narrower than the others. A brick dentil frieze runs along the eaves level. All the windows are sash style with glazing bars, except for the left-hand window on the ground floor.
Local climate
West Midlands Police Dog Training Section (Harborne Home Farmhouse) 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 — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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