Dorman Smith Switchgear Limited Midland Regional Office is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Office. 1 related planning application.
Dorman Smith Switchgear Limited Midland Regional Office
- WRENN ID
- worn-moat-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Dorman Smith Switchgear Limited Midland Regional Office, 204 and 206, Newhall Street B3, B3 1SH
- OS grid reference
- SP 063 874
- Coordinates
- 52.48456, -1.90841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dorman Smith Switchgear Limited Midland Regional Office, located at numbers 204 and 206 Newhall Street in the City Centre, dates from approximately 1900. The building is constructed of red brick with terracotta dressings and facings to the ground floor. It is three storeys high and features two gabled bays with a slate roof. The ground floor has a door, two windows, and a recessed door, all within simple openings with quadrant upper corners. An oversailing cornice runs along the top of the building. The first floor incorporates four windows arranged in a rhythm of two groups of two, set within brick frames and featuring stone keystones. The second floor has two large, semi-circular windows. Nearly all windows retain their original glazing bars. The building also features three characteristic rainwater heads.
Local climate
Dorman Smith Switchgear Limited Midland Regional Office 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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