The Round House
THE ROUND HOUSE, 16, ST JAMES ROAD B15
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076207
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, 16, ST JAMES ROAD B15
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02460/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076207
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, 16, ST JAMES ROAD B15
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:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, 16, ST JAMES ROAD B15
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 05908 85629
Details
ST JAMES'S ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 No 16 (The Round House) SP 0585 NE 40/46 II 26.8.81 2. A good example of a stucco cottage ornee combining the picturesque Italian rustic manner with gothic-Tudor details. The central cornical roofed rotunda was originally built as a freestanding folly circa 1810, in grounds that were then part of No 29 George Road. The wings to the garden front and the wings on the roadside were added circa 1830 on conversion to a separate dwelling. Further addition of service wing on west side circa 1860-70 and some early C20 alterations. The rotunda on 2 storeys, rising above the single storey wings, has a conical graded slate roof with very deep overhang to eaves. As originally built it was probably thatched. Crowning stucco chimney with Victorian ornamental pots has attached dovecote gable to one side. The wings have hipped slate roofs with flat eaves, the roofs over link sections wrapped around the rotunda. The lean-to forebuilding with the entrance in the angle, to right hand of road front, has been much altered this century. Random fenestration: the tower retaining an assortment of pointed arch casements, one on first floor very small; the wings have drip moulds over their casements and there is an oval window in the left hand wing. On the garden front the 1830 wings symmetrically flank the rotunda, terminating in slightly advanced bays containing late C19 French windows. The hipped slate roofs, with overhanging eaves, are gracefully swept around the rotunda over the link sections which have 2 light casements with drip moulds. On this front the rotunda has centrally placed 2 light leaded casements, that on first floor original with pointed arches to lights. The 2 storey late C19 service wing has exposed brickwork to its west flank. Inside the house was considerably altered in the early C20: door furniture, staircase etc, but the ground floor room of the rotunda, facing the garden, a small mantlepiece with roundel corner blocks and cornice-shelf.
Listing NGR: SP0590885629
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217554
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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