Former Medical Superintendant's House at Rubery Hill Hospital
FORMER MEDICAL SUPERINTENDANT'S HOUSE AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234337
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former Medical Superintendant's House at Rubery Hill Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER MEDICAL SUPERINTENDANT'S HOUSE AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234337
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former Medical Superintendant's House at Rubery Hill Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER MEDICAL SUPERINTENDANT'S HOUSE AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH
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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:
- FORMER MEDICAL SUPERINTENDANT'S HOUSE AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH
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:
- SO 99165 77819
Details
BIRMINGHAM BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH (OFF) SO 97 NE Former Medical Superintendant's 15/10032 House at Rubery Hill Hospital II Former Medical Superintendant's House,now Nursery school.Dated 1879,by Martin and Chamberlain of Birmingham for the Borough of Birmingham's Lunatic Asylums Committee of Visitors.Red brick with ashlar and terracotta dressings.Sidewall and ridge stacks with some moulded brickwork and clay pots.Barge-boarded gables,and plain tiled roof with crested clay ridges. Irregular plan with 'L' shaped front range at right angles to triple-gabled rear elevation.South elevation of 2 storeys above a basement,3 bays,with 'L'shaped porch to middle bay giving access to flight of steps leading to raised entrance.Porch has gabled timber superstructure on battered ashlar and brick piers,with pointed entry arch.Sidewall to stepped entry has a 6-light clerestorey below a plain tiled lean-to roof with small glazed dormer.Above porch gable,projecting breast of a sidewall chimney.To the west,a 4 over 4 pane ground floor sash window; above lean-to roof to centre bay, coupled 6-pane lights.Advanced gabled bay to east with coupled sash windows to ground floor above a blind basement.Frames have 12 panes to the upper sash and 2 below.First floor canted oriel carried on moulded timber brackets with sashes matching those to ground floor.Fish-scale tiled apron to gable forms roof to oriel below decorative cambered collar and yoke to gable apex.Further to east,steepll-pitched lean-to links with 5 bay corridor with entrance return at east end.Triple gabled north elevation with lean-to glazed porch to centre above copled stair windows.West elevation has gabled south bay with canted ashlar bay window.Coupled sashes above.Jettied apex to decorative gable incorporates timber nogging and ornamental terracotta.Interior retains many original panelled doors,turned baluster staircase,plaster cornice and encaustic-tiled entrance hall floor.
Listing NGR: SO9916577819
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410206
- 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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