Main Block to Royal School for Deaf Children is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Villa. 5 related planning applications.
Main Block to Royal School for Deaf Children
- WRENN ID
- silent-moulding-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Main Block to Royal School for Deaf Children, 34, Calthorpe Road B15
- OS grid reference
- SP 054 854
- Coordinates
- 52.46727, -1.92149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a substantial two-storey, three-bay buff stucco villa, originally part of the Calthorpe estate, dating from around 1815. It was likely constructed as part of the early development of the area. Slightly recessed bay wings were probably added later.
The main block features shallow rustication on the ground floor, a plinth, and a first-floor sill band. It has flat, bracketed eaves to a low-pitched slate roof. A single ground-floor window on the left is set within a shallow rectangular panel that extends down to the plinth. The window on the right, likely from around 1850-60, is a tripartite bay with Doric plasterwork and an entablature. The first floor has glazing bar sashes, with a tripartite window on the right featuring stucco dividers. A porch with coupled Roman Doric columns supports a triglyph and medallion frieze, and a modillion cornice with a blocking course. The panelled reveal of the round-headed doorway has a fanlight with an inverted looped radial and marginal glazed pattern.
Later 19th-century windows are visible on the wings. Modern school extensions to the right are not included as part of the listed building. The design is similar to that of No. 4 Church Road.
Local climate
Main Block to Royal School for Deaf Children 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 — 8 transactions since 2018
- 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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