CONVENT OF ST PAUL

CONVENT OF ST PAUL, SELLY PARK ROAD B29

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076184
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: CONVENT OF ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: CONVENT OF ST PAUL, SELLY PARK ROAD B29

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076184
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: CONVENT OF ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: CONVENT OF ST PAUL, SELLY PARK ROAD B29

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CONVENT OF ST PAUL, SELLY PARK ROAD B29

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 05475 82485

Details

SELLY PARK ROAD 1. 5104 Selly Park B29 Convent of St Paul SP 08 SE 12/53 II 2. The Generalate (formerly Selly Park Hall) is early C19. Brick; slate roof. Two and a half storeys; 3 bays, the centre one advanced and pedimented. Ground floor with a central door with fanlight and side lights set in a simple stuccoed surround and 2 tripartite windows with exceedingly elongated volutes and beneath a shallow relieving arch. First floor with a central window similar to the ground floor ones but with a blind balcony and a segmental relieving arch and 2 sash windows also with blind balconies. The attic windows 3 almost square sashes sitting on a band. Finely moulded and dentilled eaves cornice. Left and right, curved walls, later C19 in their upper parts. Interior with an elegant flying staircase with pretty foliage in the balustrade rising up within an oval room to the first floor balcony landing. At first floor level, the walls with large and small arched panels and entrances off the landing. Only this of the Convent's buildings is listed.

Listing NGR: SP0547582485

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 217596
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.