Corporation School is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1976. School. 3 related planning applications.
Corporation School
- WRENN ID
- bitter-cornice-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield MP: Sir Andrew Mitchell (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1976
- Type
- School
- Address
- Corporation School, Mere Green Road, Sutton Coldfield, B75 5BL
- OS grid reference
- SP 116 988
- Coordinates
- 52.58732, -1.82878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corporation School, originally known as Hill County Infant School, was built in 1826. It features colour washed brick and low pitched roofs covered with Welsh slate, complete with eaves cornices. The building includes sash windows that have glazing bars. The main two-storey block is topped with a turret that has louvred sides and a wrought iron weather vane. There is also a one-storey front wing that has projecting eaves and dummy round headed arcades with imposts, along with some round arched windows that have glazing bars radiating to the arches.
Local climate
Corporation School receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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