Front Block of Bishop Vesey's Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. School building. 4 related planning applications.
Front Block of Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- north-zinc-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield MP: Sir Andrew Mitchell (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- School building
- Address
- Front Block of Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2NH
- OS grid reference
- SP 121 968
- Coordinates
- 52.56892, -1.82203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front block of Bishop Vesey's Grammar School is an early 18th-century house constructed of red brick. It features a roof parapet with stone coping and stands three storeys high, adorned with a stone cornice and two stone string courses. The façade includes five sash windows set in broad frames, each topped with flat arches and keystones. To the left, there is a three-window wing from the late 18th or early 19th century. On the right, a wing added in 1887 also has three storeys, characterized by two Dutch gables and sash windows with glazing bars and aprons, all under flat arches.
Local climate
Front Block of Bishop Vesey's Grammar 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings