This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
HIGH STREET 1.
5104 Harborne B17 The Clock Tower Community Education Centre and No 106 SP 08 SW 11/25 II 2.
Circa 1885 by Martin and Chamberlain, and built as a school. Red brick and terracotta with minimum stone dressings; tile roof with decorative ridge tiles.
Asymmetrical composition partly of one and partly of 2 storeys; 6 bays, with a tower in the third. Bay one is No 106 the former master's house with ground floor canted bay window and tripartite first floor window beneath a half-hipped roof.
Set back on the left of this, the gabled entrance bay with pointed-arched door. Bay 2 is broad, gabled and 2 storeys high, its ground and first floor windows separated from one another by a band of decorative brickwork and set within a shallow pointed arched recess. The clock tower with the principal entrance to the school, 2 tiers of lancet openings and clock faces beneath gablets rising into the spire zone; spire with lucarnes and a fanciful finial. The fourth and fifth bays each with broad pointed casement windows within gables projecting into the roof. The sixth bay is 2-storeyed with a half-hipped roof and mostly pointed windows, some narrow and some broader.
Listing NGR: SP0375084629
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1836 IOE Records taken by J J Sheridan; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr J J Sheridan. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Sheridan, J J
Rights Holder: Sheridan, J J
Brick, Stone, Terracotta, Tile, Victorian Clock Tower, Unassigned, Tower, Building, Teachers House, Domestic, House, Dwelling, School, Education, Community Centre, Civil
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