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Peddimore Hall: Grade II
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Peddimore Hall (1659) is on Peddimore Lane in Minworth; it is a
privately-owned manor house built in red-brick with sandstone dressings
to a design by William Wilson. The house stands on the site of an
earlier mediaeval hall that was once the ancestral home of the Arden family.
A pediment above the stone doorway bears the inscription "Deus Noster
Refugium". The grounds, which contain a mediaeval barn (1385), are
encircled by a double moat with a drawbridge. |
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Perrotts Folly: Grade II*
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Perrott's Folly, also known as the Monument, is a 29-metre red-brick
tower on Waterworks Road in the Rotton Park area of Edgbaston. It was
built by John Perrott for an unknown purpose in 1759.
The six-storey tower, which has a stair turret, stands on an octagonal
base. The first 4 storeys contain a single pointed window, the 5th has
an oculus and the 6th, a blind Gothic arcade with under-sized
rectangular windows.
The 6th floor ceiling is decorated with an elaborate Gothic plaster
frieze; the summit features a stone cornice and battlements.
The tower
was used as a meteorological observatory from 1884 until 1979; it now hosts the
occasional art exhibition.
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Rest House: Grade II
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This circular Rest House, now a visitor centre, on Bournville Village
Green was built to commemorate the 25th wedding anniversary of George
and Elizabeth Cadbury in 1913.
It is modelled on the Yarn Market (circa 1609) in the Somerset
village of Dunster.
The interior contains an inscription which states that the building
was paid for by Cadbury employees in gratitude for their employer's
unceasing interest in their welfare.
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Guide Bournville -
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Saracens Head: Grade II*
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The Saracen's Head is on the north-west side of Kings Norton Green.
It consists of a north range, opposite St Nicholas's Church, which is a
timber-framed merchant's house dating from 1492; and an east range,
facing the green, which is a timber-framed house dating from 1510 with an
18th century brick facade.
Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, supposedly spent the
night at the Saracens Head in 1643. The east range became a pub in 1770;
it closed in 1930 when Mitchell & Butler donated the building as a
church hall. |
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Selly Oak Substation: Grade II
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Selly Oak Substation is a brick and terracotta building at the rear of
659 Bristol Road in the Bournbrook area of Selly Oak. It was built as a
steam-powered water-pumping station in the style of a French Gothic
Chapel in 1890.
The north facade features a triple arcade of blind arches, an apse
with clerestory, a gabled staircase turret with three stepped-blind
arches and elaborate cut brickwork.
The east entrance is approached by means of a buttressed staircase; a
transept projects from the south wall; the cornice features floral
terracotta mouldings.
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Sheldon Hall: Grade II*
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Sheldon Hall is on Gressel Lane in the Tile Cross area of Kitts Green in
east Birmingham; it is a mediaeval manor that was rebuilt in the early
1500's and extended in 1600.
The oldest part of the house is the central core which is built in
brick with a tiled roof. A roughcast bay with a projecting gable has
been built onto its left wing and two similar outer bays have been added
to its right wing. The wings and rear facade feature clusters of
star-shaped chimneys.
Sheldon Hall was once the ancestral home of the Scheldon family but
is now a bar and restaurant. The city boundary runs along its eastern
side.
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