BELL'S FARMHOUSE

BELL'S FARMHOUSE, 157, BELL'S LANE B14

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1075751
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: BELL'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BELL'S FARMHOUSE, 157, BELL'S LANE B14

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1075751
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: BELL'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BELL'S FARMHOUSE, 157, BELL'S LANE B14

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BELL'S FARMHOUSE, 157, BELL'S LANE B14

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 06361 78755

Details

BELL'S LANE 1. 5104 Brandwood B14 No 157 (Bell's Farmhouse) (formerly listed under Northfield) SP 07 NE 17/14 25.4.52 II* 2. Late C16 to mid C17 substantial farmhouse. Two storeys and attic. Timber framed with red brick infill, later roughcast. Double gabled front and rear, the gables slightly jettied at attic level. Old tile roof. Original external chimney stacks to side elevations with tall coupled stair shaped shafts. Fenestration consists mainly of C19 wood casements. Central doorway giving access to axial passage, the door in an architrave (but hood missing). All main rooms of interior retain C17 panelling although some appears to be reset. Ground floor right hand room has palmette frieze - upper right hand room has remains of C17 plaster ceiling in 2 compartments, one with rosette and guilloche decoration, the other with an original arrangement with lions' masks. Dog leg staircase with surviving elements of splat balusters. The site of the house was moated to the west.

Listing NGR: SP0636178755

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Legacy System number:: 216766
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.