School of Horticultural Training (In Kings Heath Park) is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. A 19th century School. 4 related planning applications.
School of Horticultural Training (In Kings Heath Park)
- WRENN ID
- broken-courtyard-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley MP: Tahir Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- School
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- School of Horticultural Training (In Kings Heath Park), Vicarage Road B14, B14 7TQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 067 815
- Coordinates
- 52.43182, -1.90214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School of Horticultural Training, located in Kings Heath Park, is an early 19th-century building that has been altered over time. It features a stuccoed exterior and a slate roof. The structure has five bays, with the central bay slightly projecting and one bay recessed. The ground floor includes two windows and a door set within a closed porch, which is supported by coupled Tuscan columns and features an entablature and blocking course. There are three additional windows on this level. A plain band runs along the first floor level, with a moulded band at the first floor sill level. The first floor has six tall sash windows with glazing bars, all set in moulded frames. The ground floor windows are adorned with elaborately bracketed cornices. The building also has a moulded band at the first floor ceiling level and a moulded and dentilled eaves cornice. To the right, there is a 19th-century greenhouse with iron arched windows and elaborate foliagework in the spandrels. On the left-hand return, there are two bow windows that extend through both storeys.
Local climate
School of Horticultural Training (In Kings Heath Park) 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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