Description

VERNON ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B16
No 1
(Midland House)
SP 0486 SW 35/8
II
2.
C1880 built as an asylum of modest size. Two storeys red brick with stone
and buff brick dressings still with simplified classical detail. Seven
bay main range set back between 2 bay wings. Low hipped slate roofs with
deep boxed eaves. Stone plat band and plinth. Advanced centre piece with
Serlian porch and 2 close set round headed windows on first floor. Windows
otherwise round headed on ground floor and segmental arched on first floor
the bays defined as panels by pilaster strips with concave chamfers, the panel
heads capped with toothed bands. The building closes the vista of Clarendon
Road.

Listing NGR: SP0434386356

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26578744

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)