Former Dudley County Court is a Grade II listed building in the Dudley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1976. A Victorian Former courthouse.
Former Dudley County Court
- WRENN ID
- frozen-portal-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dudley
- Constituency
- Dudley MP: Sonia Kumar (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1976
- Type
- Former courthouse
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Former Dudley County Court, The Old Courthouse, 3, Priory Street, DY1 1EP
- OS grid reference
- SO 943 903
- Coordinates
- 52.5109, -2.08523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Dudley County Court, dated 1858, is a stone building featuring a rusticated ground storey. It has two storeys and an attic, with five sash windows set in moulded architraves that have segmental heads and voluted keyblocks. The ground storey windows also have segmental heads and large figure-head keyblocks. The building includes decorative bands, a doorway on the right side with a semi-circular head, a plain fanlight, and a six-panelled divided door. It has a frieze with moulded roundels, modillion bracket eaves, and a slate roof. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 1 and 2 County Court, No 3A, and Nos 4 to 7, along with Nos 193 to 200 and No 200A on Wolverhampton Street.
Local climate
Former Dudley County Court receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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