Avon Croft
AVON CROFT, 21, FOUR OAKS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277005
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Avon Croft
- Statutory Address:
- AVON CROFT, 21, FOUR OAKS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277005
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Avon Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVON CROFT, 21, FOUR OAKS ROAD
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.
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:
- AVON CROFT, 21, FOUR OAKS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton Coldfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 11302 98346
Details
5104 FOOR OAKS ROAD (Avon Croft)
SP. 19 NI 2/202
II 2. 1900, part of the Four Oaks estate and built for Charles Brampton almost certainly by the partnership of Crouch and Butler. Standing on a corner site within a spacious garden, a substantial but compactly designed Arts and Crafts house with coach house attached. L plan gabled wings, rough cast, one with timber framing, clasping a squat 3 storey tower. Raking buttresses to south wing. Steep pitch slate roof. Tapering external rough cast chimney stacks to timber framed wing and west front. Shaped rising parapet to to~ler ~lith corner. finials. Plain, kneeler and coping to gable of south 'iring. Leaded casements, curved bay wi ndow to grour floor of south wing. Beneath gable with a pair of small attic lights, is a large sundial inscribed "Count the Sunny Hours". The porch is splayed across corner at the base of the tower and has a Gothic arched door with leaded glazing and side light. The coach house is set back abutting the. corner of the timber framed wing, roughcast with battered walls and central broad kneeler break with large round arched doors. The interior of the house retains most of its original features with white woodwork throughout, splat baluster staircase in spacious L plan hall, beaten copper hoods to fireplaces, headed glazed internal doors separating dining room. Avon Croft is a well preserved example of the Birmingham Arts and Crafts school.
Listing NGR: SP1130298346
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407998
- 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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