Walls and seating at the Green

Linden Road, Birmingham, B30 1JT

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Walls and seating at the Green, 1920s-1930s. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219427
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: Walls and seating at the Green
Statutory Address:: Linden Road, Birmingham, B30 1JT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219427
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Aug-2020
List Entry Name:: Walls and seating at the Green
Statutory Address 1:: Linden Road, Birmingham, B30 1JT

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:: Linden Road, Birmingham, B30 1JT

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:: SP0444581362

Summary

Walls and seating at the Green, 1920s-1930s.

Reasons for Designation

Walls and seating at the Green, Bournville are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* robust walls well-built in dressed stone with restrained, good-quality detailing.

Historic interest:

* part of the continuing development of Bournville, founded on the promotion of well-being through the physical environment, and exemplifying this through their function as an attractive entrance to the Green, and the provision of seating.

Group value:

* on the edge of the Green, around which are grouped a number of listed social, educational, and spiritual buildings.

History

The walls and seating on Linden Road were built during the interwar period, partially enclosing the grounds of the Quaker Meeting House and the Green.

Originally the grounds to the meeting house, built in 1905, were enclosed by railings with a gateway with an iron overthrow. These were replaced in the 1920s or 1930s with the present low walls with attached benches, part of a wider scheme reconfiguring the entrance to the adjacent public park. Since 1900 developments in Bournville have been the responsibility of the Bournville Village Trust. The original architect of the model village, William Alexander Harvey, may have undertaken the design. Following the main phase of development of the village from 1895, Harvey began a private practice in 1905, though continued designing buildings in Bournville until the 1930s.

Details

Walls and seating at the Green, 1920s-1930s.

MATERIALS: constructed from limestone with timber benches.

PLAN: at the junction of Linden Road, Woodbrooke Road, and the Green, the roadway widens and there is a curved concourse in front of the Quaker Meeting House and the public park. Four short lengths of low walling form the eastern boundary of this space.

DESCRIPTION: the walls are low curving stretches of ashlar masonry between higher rectangular piers with chamfered angles. Shaped corbels enrich the openings to the grounds of the meeting house and park. The two central lengths of walling have benches supported on moulded stone brackets.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 217370
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.