THE QUADRANGLE

THE QUADRANGLE, MARY VALE ROAD B30

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076259
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: THE QUADRANGLE
Statutory Address:: THE QUADRANGLE, MARY VALE ROAD B30

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Date:: 2001-10-17
Reference:: IOE01/03694/26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076259
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: THE QUADRANGLE
Statutory Address 1:: THE QUADRANGLE, MARY VALE ROAD B30

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:: THE QUADRANGLE, MARY VALE ROAD B30

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 04634 80805

Details

MARY VALE ROAD 1. 5104 Bournville B30 The Quadrangle (formerly listed as Bournville Almshouses) SP 0484 NE 57/5 II 21.1.70 2. 1897 by Ewan Harper for Richard Cadbury. In the traditional form of single-storeyed almshouses set around a spacious quadrangle. Red brick with stone dressings; tile roof. In a Tudor style. The principal facade to Mary Vale Road with a centrepiece of gatehouse type with flanking wings. The gatehouse 2-storeyed with turrets left and right and a projecting porch with oriel window over. To the left, the matron's rooms, to the right the chapel. To the road the houses with canted bay windows beneath timber-framed gables; to the quadrangle, the round headed entrances to the houses in pairs beneath timber-framed gables. In the centre of the quadrangle, a shelter like that on The Green but here rectangular in plan. Pyramidal tiled roof with gabled dormers in each side and a lantern, all supported on wooden columns.

Listing NGR: SP0463480805

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Legacy System number:: 217393
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.