Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1982. Post office. 5 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- half-merlon-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1982
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Post Office, 27, the Circle B17, B17 9DY
- OS grid reference
- SP 030 849
- Coordinates
- 52.46266, -1.95641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Post Office, located at The Circle in Harborne, was built around 1907-1910 as part of the Harborne Tenants' Estate Limited, promoted by J S Nettlefold and designed by Martin and Martin. This building features a symmetrical design that marks the end of the vista down Moor Pool Avenue. It is constructed of brick and roughcast with a tiled roof and stands two storeys tall, comprising five bays. The central gabled bay is both higher and wider than the gabled second and fourth bays. On the ground floor, there is a single-light window, a shop front, two shop fronts with doors angled towards each other at the center, another shop front, and a final single-light window. The first floor includes a segment-headed three-light window on either side of a six-light canted bay window supported by brackets.
Local climate
Post Office receives an average of 790 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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