Blue Coat School (Front Block) is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. School. 7 related planning applications.
Blue Coat School (Front Block)
- WRENN ID
- pitched-gutter-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich MP: Valerie Vaz (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- School
- Address
- Blue Coat School (Front Block), Hanch Place, WS1 3AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 017 980
- Coordinates
- 52.58, -1.97569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blue Coat School (front block) is a house that has been converted into a school, built around 1830 by John Forster. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof. The building is designed symmetrically with two storeys and two bays on each side of a three-bay two-storey bow. The facade is enhanced by pilasters that flank the outer pairs of bays and a cornice with a blocking course. In front of the bow, there are four giant Ionic columns. The first-floor windows disrupt the architrave, and above each column in the bay, there is a laurel wreath on the frieze. The windows are sashed without glazing bars. On the ground floor, the middle window of the bow has an architrave, while the outer windows feature French windows with margin lights. The left-hand bay includes a first-floor door leading to an iron fire escape. The outer pair of bays each has separate pitched roofs. The building was formerly known as "The Terrace" and is illustrated in the Victoria County History, Staffordshire, Volume 7, page 176.
Local climate
Blue Coat School (Front Block) receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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