Highbury Hall
HIGHBURY HALL, YEW TREE ROAD B13
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1076076
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Highbury Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHBURY HALL, YEW TREE ROAD B13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1076076
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Highbury Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHBURY HALL, YEW TREE ROAD B13
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHBURY HALL, YEW TREE ROAD B13
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 06820 82690
Details
SF 08 SE 12/75
Moseley B13, YEW TREE ROAD, Highbury Hall
(formerly listed as Highbury Moor Green)
21.01.70
II
Dated 1879 by J H Chamberlain for the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain MP whose
house it was from 1880 to 1914. Extensive modern additions have been made
since the house became in 1915 a hospital and later an old peoples' home.
Red brick with stone dressings and some applied timberwork in the gables;
tiled roof with richly carved brick eaves cornice. Mostly of two storeys plus
attic, but partly of three storeys. Asymmetrical composition essentially
L-shaped in plan. Original panelled double doors with stained glass tympanum
within a richly moulded stone arch on two orders of pink marble shafts with
gable above. Left and right gabled pilasters. Above, a 2-light window
with richly carved tympanum and gable. The windows pointed and mostly
of plate tracery type. Much use everywhere of decorative materials and
carved, especially cut brick, decoration. The right hand return is the
garden facade, again asymmetrical but essentially a long 2-storeyed wing
with two 2-storeyed bay windows and a 3-storeyed wing with a 3-storeyed
stone canted bay window in it.
INTERIOR of great richness. The Great
Hall, with floor of variegated woods, rises through two storeys to a timber
and glazed roof. At one end of the room, the staircase rises behind the
first floor balcony to appear through an arcade of five arches with pink marble
shafts set in a tile diapered wall at the other end, a richly marbled
fireplace with carved panels and tiles and a reredos like mirror with crocketted
gables. Walls with pink marble pilasters, panelled dado, tiles and carved
foliage panels. Gilt gesso to the underside of the balcony, which has
geometrical railings. Huge central brass gasolier. Off this hall, the
principal rooms all with Gothic panelled doors with good brass furniture,
elaborate fireplaces with coloured marbles, carved foliage panels, tiles
and rich ceiling cornices. The former Billiard Room is L-shaped with an
arcade of three bays with marble piers and 2-centred arches. Panelled dado;
richly coffered wooden ceiling with painted foliage, inlay work and geometrical
panelling; fireplace with brass surround, pink and white marbles and foilage
carving.
Listing NGR: SP0682082690
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217837
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 43 West Midlands,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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