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Small Heath Library and Baths: Grade II
 
Small Heath Library and Baths. Original image Oosoom. Image (cropped and resized brumagem) licesned for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License

Small Heath Library and Baths stand at the junction of Green Lane and Grange Road in Small Heath. Both were designed by Chamberlain & Martin in the Gothic Jacobean Style and built in red-brick & terracotta in 1893-1902.

The library features a circular clock tower, gabled entrance and allegorical relief of Knowledge, Learning & Study.

The former baths, behind the library, feature a circular chimney on a bartizan-pinnacled tower. The combined building became a mosque in 1979.

 
Guide Small Heath - Find Listed Buildings in Brum - Map
 
Soho House: Grade II* (Top)
 

Soho House in Birmingham. Original image (cropped and resized brumagem) licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License

Soho House is on Soho Avenue off Soho Hill. It is a mid-18th century mansion that was enlarged by the pioneer industrialist Mathew Boulton in 1766.

The principal facade, which faces the garden, was designed by James Wyatt. It is faced with painted slate that resembles ashlar stone.

The central bay is flanked by panelled Ionic pilasters and features a semi-circular porch supported by Ionic columns.

The entrance hall contains plaster-imitation (scagliola) columns; it leads to a reception room with 3 narrow-vaulted bays supported by a hidden iron frame although the architect has created the illusion that the bays are carried by more scagliola columns.

The house has a hypocaust heating system, the first of its kind to be constructed in England since the Roman Occupation.

Soho House adjoined the Soho Manufactory which was demolished in 1863. After Boulton's death in 1809, it became a hotel and then a police hostel before being converted into a municipal museum.

 
Guide Soho - Lozells and Soho Hill Conservation Area - Map
 
Sparkhill Public Library (Top)
 
Sparkhill Library in Birmingham. original image Oosoom. Image (cropped and resized brumagem) licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 License

Sparkhill Public Library is on the Stratford Road in Sparkhill. It was built in red-brick as Yardley Council House in 1900 and features a landmark clock tower with a short spire.

The building originally housed Yardley's sanitary inspectorate and its surveyors and rate collectors. It also contained the morgue, fire station and stables and was one of the first public buildings in the UK to be equipped with secondary glazing.

After the electorate of Yardley Rural District Council voted to become part of Birmingham in 1911, the Council Chamber and 1st-floor committee rooms were converted into a library with an open timber roof. Many original features such as the copper door handles and encaustic tiled floor have survived.

 
Guide Sparkhill - Find Listed Buildings in Brum - Map
 
Stirchley Baths: Grade II (Top)
 
Stirchley Baths. Image by Big Richard C. Image licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License

Stirchley Baths are on Bournville Lane in Stirchley; they were built by Kings Norton and Northfield District Council in 1910 but were taken over by the Birmingham Baths Committee after Stirchley became part of Birmingham in 1911.

The building contains one swimming pool with spectator's gallery, private men's & women's slipper baths and a steam room for "purging skin pores".

The pool has an early filtration & aeration system and so did not have to be constantly emptied and refilled in order to be cleaned. It was, however, drained in the winter when the building doubled as a dance hall. The baths closed in 1988 and are now derelict.

 
Guide Stirchley - Find Listed Buildings in Brum - Map
 
The Farm: Grade II* (Top)
 
The Farm at Sparkbrook in Birmingham. Original image Adrian Bailey. Image (cropped and resized brumagem) licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 License

The Farm on Sampson Road in Sparkbrook was the seat of the Lloyds banking dynasty between 1742 and 1912. It is a mid-18th century red-brick mansion that was built on the site of a mediaeval farmhouse by Sampson Lloyd II, the founder of Lloyds Bank.

The Farm was enlarged by Sampson Lloyd III in the 1770's. He blocked the original front door, converted the rear kitchen into an entrance hall and built a new fluted Doric pilastered doorway with pediment. He also added an impressive open string staircase with carved brackets, turned balusters and fluted newel posts.

The house has retained its grounds (now an urban park) and is approached through a formal avenue of elms.

 
Guide Sparkbrook - Find Listed Buildings in Brum - Map
 
 
 
 
Walmley Almshouses: Grade II (Top)
 

Walmley Almshouses. Image copyright Graham Flint. Image licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License

There are several pairs of almshouses at the junction of Fox Hollies Road and Walmley Road in the Walmley area of Sutton Coldfield.

This pair were built in 1863 in red-brick with purple brick bands, stone dressings, bargeboards, crestings and casement windows.

The houses share a Welsh slate roof; the porches are inscribed: J. Riland & Anne Webb

 
Guide Walmley - Find Listed Buildings in Brum - Map
 
Yardley Old Grammar: Grade II* (Top)
 
Yardley Old Grammar in Birmingham. Image by Erebus555. Image licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

Yardley Old Grammar School is on Church Road in Yardley. The school, which dates from 1490, closed in 1908. It is a four-bay two-storey timber-frame building with vertical studding and some rear Victorian brick facing.

The first floor and the left gabled end are jettied. The far right bay features a painted-brick ground floor.

Two Victorian cottages have been built onto the far right bay. The first is a two-storey three-bay painted-brick house with a dentilled cornice and the second is a two-storey, three-bay red-brick house with a panelled door & segment-headed windows.

 
Guide Yardley - Yardley Old Village Conservation Area - Map
 
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