ENTRANCE AND OFFICES WITH TROPICAL BIRD HOUSE AND TROPICAL LILY HOUSE, BOTANICAL GARDENS

ENTRANCE AND OFFICES WITH TROPICAL BIRD HOUSE AND TROPICAL LILY HOUSE, BOTANICAL GARDENS, WESTBOURNE ROAD B15

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211417
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE AND OFFICES WITH TROPICAL BIRD HOUSE AND TROPICAL LILY HOUSE, BOTANICAL GARDENS
Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE AND OFFICES WITH TROPICAL BIRD HOUSE AND TROPICAL LILY HOUSE, BOTANICAL GARDENS, WESTBOURNE ROAD B15

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Date:: 2000-08-17
Reference:: IOE01/02460/22
Rights:: © Dr John Davis. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211417
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE AND OFFICES WITH TROPICAL BIRD HOUSE AND TROPICAL LILY HOUSE, BOTANICAL GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: ENTRANCE AND OFFICES WITH TROPICAL BIRD HOUSE AND TROPICAL LILY HOUSE, BOTANICAL GARDENS, WESTBOURNE ROAD B15

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:: ENTRANCE AND OFFICES WITH TROPICAL BIRD HOUSE AND TROPICAL LILY HOUSE, BOTANICAL GARDENS, WESTBOURNE 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 04890 85504

Details

WESTBOURNE ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 Entrance and offices with Tropical Bird House and Tropical Lily House, Botanical Gardens SP 0485 NE 38/21 SP 0485 SE 43/5 II GV 2. C1840. Stucco; slate roof. Two storeys. Canted end flanked towards the road and drive by single storeyed slated lean-to lobbies. Stucco chimney stacks with cornices. In the entrance passage, a Regency openwork iron arch, with one pilaster only, supporting a Greek key frieze. The passage leads to the Tropical Bird House, with its chamfered timber columns, and on to the Tropical Lily House. This has iron columns with openwork supporting roof beams and dividing the room into 3 aisles. It leads in its turn to the Palm House (qv).

Listing NGR: SP0489085504

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Legacy System number:: 217793
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 43 West Midlands,

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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.