School of Art is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1976. Educational building. 1 related planning application.
School of Art
- WRENN ID
- stark-wall-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield MP: Sir Andrew Mitchell (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1976
- Type
- Educational building
- Address
- School of Art, 34, Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2NJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 121 967
- Coordinates
- 52.56864, -1.82228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This early 20th century School of Art is part of the Sutton Coldfield College of Further Education. It was designed in a Georgian style. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressing. It has a tall, hipped tiled roof with a modillioned cornice. The design is of one storey, featuring six sash windows with glazing bars, each set under a flat arch with a keystone, and contained within shallow round arched panels. A central projection has a segmental pediment and a pedimented door surround with a stone panel. An octagonal cupola sits atop the roof ridge.
Local climate
School of Art 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 75% 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.
- Sale history — 11 transactions 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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