Entrance and Offices with Tropical Bird House and Tropical Lily House, Botanical Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Botanical garden.

Entrance and Offices with Tropical Bird House and Tropical Lily House, Botanical Gardens

WRENN ID
endless-lime-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 July 1982
Type
Botanical garden
Address
Entrance and Offices with Tropical Bird House and Tropical Lily House, Botanical Gardens, Westbourne Road B15
OS grid reference
SP 048 855
Coordinates
52.46747, -1.92944
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance and offices with the Tropical Bird House and Tropical Lily House, located in the Botanical Gardens, date back to around 1840. The building is constructed of stucco and features a slate roof. It stands two storeys tall, with a canted end that is flanked by single-storey, slated lean-to lobbies towards the road and drive. The building has stucco chimney stacks with cornices. Inside the entrance passage, there is a Regency openwork iron arch supported by a single pilaster, which features a Greek key frieze. The passage leads to the Tropical Bird House, characterized by its chamfered timber columns, and further on to the Tropical Lily House. The Tropical Lily House contains iron columns with openwork that support roof beams and divide the room into three aisles. This house connects to the Palm House.

Local climate

Entrance and Offices with Tropical Bird House and Tropical Lily House, Botanical Gardens 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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