Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Educational building. 5 related planning applications.
Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art
- WRENN ID
- idle-paling-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Educational building
- Address
- Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, 45, Church Road B15, B15 3SW
- OS grid reference
- SP 053 851
- Coordinates
- 52.46471, -1.92254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, located at 45 Church Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, was constructed between 1830 and 1840. It is a stucco building with a slate roof. The structure is two storeys and features three bays. The central entrance has a lunette fanlight and panelled reveals, accompanied by Doric pilasters supporting an open pediment. Two later rectangular bay windows flank the entrance. The first floor contains sash windows which sit upon a string course. A quadrant wall connects to a stable block to the left. The road-facing elevation has no windows. The building features an eaves frieze, a dentilled cornice, and a hipped slate roof with triangular vents at the ends of the ornamental ridge.
Local climate
Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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