Handsworth Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. School. 14 related planning applications.

Handsworth Grammar School

WRENN ID
brooding-brass-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Perry Barr MP: Ayoub Khan (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 July 1982
Type
School
Address
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane B20, B21 9ET
OS grid reference
SP 046 896
Coordinates
52.50441, -1.93339
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Handsworth Grammar School was built in 1892 by Mr. Bidlake of Wolverhampton at a cost of £2,300. The school features red and black brick with stone dressings and has a tiled roof. It is a single-storey building with seven bays. The first, sixth, and seventh bays are advanced and gabled, while the sixth bay serves as the entrance, featuring a clock and a shingled bell turret with 'Roguish' detail. The first bay includes central buttresses and two windows, while the seventh bay has a central tall three-light window in a shouldered arched surround, along with two lancet-type windows. Bays two to five represent the hall, which has four three-light windows and a shingled louvred turret on the skyline. All the windows feature geometrical-type tracery. Only this part of the building is listed.

Local climate

Handsworth Grammar School 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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