Railings and Gate Piers to Broadway Comprehensive School, Fronting Road is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. School railings.
Railings and Gate Piers to Broadway Comprehensive School, Fronting Road
- WRENN ID
- crooked-window-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Perry Barr MP: Ayoub Khan (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- School railings
- Address
- Railings and Gate Piers to Broadway Comprehensive School, Fronting Road, Whitehead Road B6
- OS grid reference
- SP 074 896
- Coordinates
- 52.50488, -1.89164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings and gate piers to Broadway Comprehensive School, located on Whitehead Road, date from the early 20th century. The railings feature plain spikes and are set on dwarf walls with standards topped by ball finials. The gate piers are constructed of red brick with rounded corners and are adorned with terracotta friezes that include scrolls, cornices, and smoothly domed caps. The gates have a rusticated ironwork base, enhanced by Art Nouveau-style beaten leaf decorations on the dograils and the overthrow.
Local climate
Railings and Gate Piers to Broadway Comprehensive School, Fronting Road 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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