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Peddimore Hall: Grade II (Top)
 

Peddimore Hall. Image by Mike Beeston. Image licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License

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* (Top)
 

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 (Top)
 
Cadbury Rest House at Bournville. Original image Phil Champion. Image (cropped and resized brumagem) licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 license

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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Saracens Head: Grade II* (Top)
 
Saracens Head at Kings Norton in Birmingham. Image copyright Phil Champion. Image licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License

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 (Top)
 
Selly Oak Substation in Birmingham. Original image Chris Allen. Original image (cropped and resized Brumagem) licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 License

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* (Top)
 
Sheldon Hall in Birmingham. Image copyright Carl Baker. Image licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License

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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