Hawthorn House is on Hamstead Hall Road in Handsworth Wood.

It is a painted-brick three-storey Georgian mansion with an imposing Tuscan porch built for the Bullock family who were West Bromwich ironmasters.

The interior contains a Victorian staircase and stained-glass windows, one of which is signed "EB 1862" and another "EB Dieu donne toutes choses" (God gives everything).

Highbury Hall (1878) is on Yew Tree Road in the Moor Green area of Moseley. It is a red-brick L-shaped mansion designed by the architect John Henry Chamberlain for the politician Joseph Chamberlain (no relation) who lived there from 1880 until his death in 1914.

The facade features cut-brick carvings; the interior contains a double-storey Great Hall with timber & glazed roof, marble fireplace, pink marble pilasters & carved foliage panels.

The Grand Staircase rises to the first floor behind a balcony and reappears amidst a pink marble arcade. The L-shaped billiard room contains a three-bay arcade with marble piers.

Highbury Hall is now a conference centre owned by the Highbury Hall Trust and managed by Birmingham City Council

There was some controversy about the funding and ownership of Highbury Hall in December 2009. At that time, Birmingham City Council was the sole trustee and was leasing the hall to itself and profiting from the events staged there.

Critics objected to this arrangement and called for the appointment of additional trustees, including members of the Chamberlain family, to ensure that profits were allocated to the long-term maintenance of the hall which required £4 million of repairs (News Archive 28/12/09)

Ladypool School is on Stratford Road in Sparkbrook. It is one of 40 board schools in Birmingham that were designed in the Gothic Style by Chamberlain & Martin after school attendance became compulsory for under-13's in 1870.

The school was built in red-brick with timber framing. It features a tall axial hall and flanking ranges with timber cross-gables and triple groups of terracotta-shafted windows. The Master's House faces Beechfield Road on the south-west side.

The ventilation & bell tower collapsed during a freak tornado in July 2005.

The former Moseley College of Art is on Moseley Road in Balsall Heath. Designed by W.H.Bidlake, it was built in red-brick with bath stone dressings in 1899.

The exterior features an Ashlar portico with a massive voussoir arch and double storey of twin Doric columns.

The interior contains a 3-bay pilastered entrance hall with an imposing double staircase flanked by Doric columns. Internal corridors illuminated by semi-circular windows lead to the various rooms and studios.

The college was taken over by the British Association of Muslims after it closed in 1975.

This octagonal brick dovecote stands in the grounds of Moseley Hall on the Alcester Road.

It was built in the 18th century to house pigeon-nesting boxes at a time when pigeon meat was considered a delicacy.

After pigeons were classified as vermin in the 19th century, the dovecote became a storeroom and pigsty

Moseley Hall is a 3-storey, 5-bay Georgian mansion that was built in 1795 after an older house on the same site had been razed to the ground during the Priestley Riots of 1791.

Moseley Hall is built in ashlar stone with a rusticated ground floor and slate roof. The main facade features a Tuscan porch with an entablature and 4 pairs of columns. The grounds contain a late 18th century dovecote and red-brick stable block.

Moseley Hall was built by button manufacturer John Taylor who was a co-founder of Lloyds Bank. The house was subsequently acquired by Richard Cadbury who donated it to the city of Birmingham as a children's home in 1890; it is now a geriatric hospital.