THE ANCHORAGE

THE ANCHORAGE, 137, HANDSWORTH WOOD ROAD B20

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1076319
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: THE ANCHORAGE
Statutory Address:: THE ANCHORAGE, 137, HANDSWORTH WOOD ROAD B20

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1076319
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: THE ANCHORAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE ANCHORAGE, 137, HANDSWORTH WOOD ROAD B20

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 ANCHORAGE, 137, HANDSWORTH WOOD ROAD B20

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 04862 91181

Details

HANDSWORTH WOOD ROAD 1. 5104 Handsworth B20 No 137 (The Anchorage) SP 09 SW 2/9 II* GV 2. 1899, by Joseph Crouch and Edmund Butler. In an Arts and Crafts style. Two and a half storeys. Carefully balanced asymmetrical facade: left hand side of brick with stone dressings and the right hand side partly also brick with stone dressings and partly with applied timber framing. Tiled roof with brick chimney stacks and a cupola placed asymmetrically between a brick gabled and a lower, half-timbered gabled bay which incorporates the perch. Windows with leaded lights, some of them with stained glass by Mary Newill, who also did the embroidery inset over the fireplace in the Music Room on the ground floor. Door furniture, light fittings, copper firehoods in the hall, sitting room and music room and other metal work by Benjamin Creswick or another member of the Bromsgrove Guild. The Hunt and Feast murals by Fred Davis and the whole of the minstrels gallery in the hall were burnt in a fire C1977.

Listing NGR: SP0486291181

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Legacy System number:: 217242
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.