College of Adult Education is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1992. College. 3 related planning applications.

College of Adult Education

WRENN ID
little-ashlar-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wolverhampton
Constituency
Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1992
Type
College
Address
College of Adult Education, Old Hall Street, City of Wolverhampton, WV1 3AU
OS grid reference
SO 916 984
Coordinates
52.58355, -2.12437
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The College of Adult Education is a teacher training college, built in 1899 by T.H. Fleeming and Son. It is constructed of brick with a slate roof and features some ashlar dressings. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical nine-window facade, including three windows in a cross-wing at each end and a two-window caretaker's house set back to the right. The gables are coped with kneelers.

The windows have simply-moulded frames and moulded brick sills, with 12-pane sashes that have small-paned upper glazing. The ground floor features round-headed windows with paired sashes, while the first floor has elliptical-headed windows in the cross-wings. A central flat-roofed dormer, adorned with a small pediment, has a small-paned casement and is flanked by two slightly tapering stacks. The caretaker's house has a hipped roof and includes a two-storey bow window with a cornice to the right of a segmental-headed entrance, which is framed by an ashlar architrave, overlight, sidelights, and a flat canopy. Above this entrance is an elliptical-headed window with a tympanum and sash; there is also a flat-roofed half-dormer with a small semi-circular pediment and small-paned casement. The left return features a similar entrance. The rear of the building has a large hall wing to the left. This structure is a good, well-proportioned example of its type.

Local climate

College of Adult Education receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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