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Small Heath Library and Baths: Grade II |
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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.
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Soho House: Grade II*
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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.
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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. |
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Sparkhill Public Library
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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. |
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Stirchley Baths: Grade II
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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. |
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The Farm: Grade II*
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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. |
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Walmley Almshouses: Grade II
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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
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Yardley Old Grammar: Grade II*
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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. |
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