Ashley and Strathcona Buildings, Birmingham University is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. University building. 13 related planning applications.

Ashley and Strathcona Buildings, Birmingham University

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
University building
Address
Ashley and Strathcona Buildings, Birmingham University, Pritchatts Road, B15 2TT
OS grid reference
SP 049 837
Coordinates
52.4516, -1.9283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ashley and Strathcona Buildings at Birmingham University are linked faculty buildings constructed between 1961 and 1964 by the architects Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis. The taller block features a reinforced concrete frame, with pre-cast concrete and concrete blocks, topped with a flat roof. This tower block is made of concrete blocks and has a low-pitched lead-covered roof.

Adjacent to this is a low, slightly curved two-storey lecture room block, which connects to a five-storey spiral block that houses tutors' offices. This spiral block encloses a central covered atrium that is illuminated from above, with a staircase winding around its outer edge. The low block has vertical strip windows and wall panels that rise to create a broken parapet. The taller block features individual 2-light windows in each room, each with canted sides that form an oriel, and the beam-ends are expressed at ceiling level between the rooms.

Local climate

Ashley and Strathcona Buildings, Birmingham University 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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