Midland House is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Asylum. 2 related planning applications.
Midland House
- WRENN ID
- slow-chancel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Asylum
- Address
- Midland House, 1, Vernon Road B16, B16 9SQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 043 863
- Coordinates
- 52.47513, -1.93748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Midland House is an asylum built in the 1880s of modest size. It is constructed of red brick with stone and buff brick dressings, exhibiting simplified classical detailing. The building comprises a seven-bay main range, set back between two two-bay wings. It features low-hipped slate roofs with deep, boxed eaves, a stone plat band, and a plinth. A prominent central section has a Serlian porch and two closely spaced round-headed windows on the first floor. Other windows are round-headed on the ground floor and segmental arched on the first. The bays are defined as panels by pilaster strips with concave chamfers, with the panel heads topped with toothed bands. Midland House closes the view along Clarendon Road.
Local climate
Midland House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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