HANDSWORTH HALL (UNIVERSITY OF ASTON)

HANDSWORTH HALL (UNIVERSITY OF ASTON), FRIARY ROAD B20

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290263
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1971
List Entry Name:: HANDSWORTH HALL (UNIVERSITY OF ASTON)
Statutory Address:: HANDSWORTH HALL (UNIVERSITY OF ASTON), FRIARY ROAD B20

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290263
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: HANDSWORTH HALL (UNIVERSITY OF ASTON)
Statutory Address 1:: HANDSWORTH HALL (UNIVERSITY OF ASTON), FRIARY 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HANDSWORTH HALL (UNIVERSITY OF ASTON), FRIARY 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 04485 90995

Details

FRIARY ROAD 1. 5104 Handsworth Wood B20 Handsworth Hall (University of Aston) (formerly listed as Handsworth College) SP 09 SW 2/2 17.9.71 II 2. Former Methodist Theological College. Finished 1881, by Goddard and Ball. Brick with purple diaper and butt terracotta dressings. In a Perpendicular style. Nine 2-storey bays either side of a tower with gabled cross-wings with large transomed windows lwft and right, that on the left the great hall. The windows all 2-lights and with 2-centred arched heads. Terracotta banding. The tower of 4 storeys plus a deep parapet with big polygonal clasping turrets terminating in cupolas. Big 2-storeyed oriel window above the entrance. Above the oriel, 2 tall mullioned and transomed windows with 4-centred arched heads. Parapet on elaborate corbelling.

Listing NGR: SP0448590995

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 217086
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.