County Court is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Library/court. 14 related planning applications.

County Court

WRENN ID
crooked-granite-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Walsall
Constituency
Walsall and Bloxwich MP: Valerie Vaz (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1986
Type
Library/court
Address
County Court, Lichfield Street, WS1 1SX
OS grid reference
SP 014 986
Coordinates
52.58521, -1.97991
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The County Court, built in 1831, originally served as a library before being converted into a court in the mid-19th century. The building features a stucco exterior and a slate roof. Its symmetrical facade includes a Greek Doric prostyle tetrastyle portico with a pediment and an entablature adorned with a triglyph frieze. On either side of the portico, there is one bay that contains a blind recess with an architrave that narrows towards the top and a pediment above. The corners of the building are accentuated by clasping pilasters. The main doorway, which is now sheltered by a modern glass porch, has an architrave topped with a cornice supported by console brackets. The left-hand return wall, which faces Leicester Street, consists of three bays separated by pilasters. The right-hand bay features a window with a lugged architrave, while the other bays contain blank recesses with architraves.

Local climate

County Court 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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