Bournville Junior School is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1970. School. 16 related planning applications.

Bournville Junior School

WRENN ID
young-belfry-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Selly Oak MP: Al Carns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1970
Type
School
Address
Bournville Junior School, Linden Road B30, B30 1JY
OS grid reference
SP 043 813
Coordinates
52.42973, -1.93684
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bournville Junior School, built between 1902 and 1905 by W Alexander Harvey, is a notable red brick building with stone dressings and a slate roof. The design features a prominent square entrance tower on the left, which has a pointed arched doorway approached by steps. This doorway is highlighted by a bold keystone and is topped with an oriel window that has a carved base and a pointed stone roof. Above and to the left of the entrance is a clock. The tower is capped with a cupola, which was modified in 1934 and contains 48 bells. The cupola is supported by eight slender copper-clad columns and features a shallow ogee copper roof.

On the left side of the tower, there is another pointed arched doorway, also approached by steps, alongside a polygonal staircase turret that has a traceried window beneath its stone roof. To the right of the entrance tower, set back, is the central hall, which is illuminated by dormer windows in the roof and ends in a gable topped with a stone louvered structure. Projecting from the front of this hall are three lower gabled classrooms, with a fourth gabled classroom slightly advanced and a pointed arched doorway in a stone wall. Inside, the hall's roof is supported by lance curved braces, and it features frescoes created in 1914 by Mary Sargant Florence and Mary Creighton McDowall. The decorative carving throughout the building is by Benjamin Creswick.

Local climate

Bournville Junior School receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% 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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  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 16 applications
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