County Court is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1970. Court building.
County Court
- WRENN ID
- seventh-rotunda-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1970
- Type
- Court building
- Address
- County Court, Corporation Street B2
- OS grid reference
- SP 073 872
- Coordinates
- 52.48291, -1.89393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The County Court, built in 1882 by James Williamson, is a Grade II listed building located on Corporation Street in the city centre. It is designed in an Italianate palazzo style and features two storeys plus a basement, with a total of six bays. The ground floor showcases banded rustication, with an entrance framed by an elaborate surround and a Roman Doric porch. There are five windows above the entrance, each supported by elongated brackets that hold a broad band decorated with guilloche. This band contains blind balconies for the six pedimented windows on the first floor. All windows are sash style. The building has a decorated eaves frieze and a bracketed cornice. The right-hand return facing Newton Street is constructed of brick and consists of two bays, with an additional five bays that are slightly lower but follow the same design, featuring corniced frames for the first floor windows instead of pedimented ones.
Local climate
County Court 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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