Ashley Lodge

Ashley Lodge is a large vernacular revival house built in 1916, noted for its high-quality materials and Birmingham Arts and Crafts detailing. The building is arranged in three ranges set at an obtuse angle, with a subsidiary range extending to the northwest. It has two storeys and attics, featuring thin red bricks on the ground floor complemented by stone dressings, while the oversailing first floor is adorned with stone slate hanging. The house boasts lofty brick external chimney stacks with tall, diagonally set grouped shafts, as well as grouped shafts on the ridges. The roof has a steep pitch with tiled gable ends and oversailing gables that include stone slate hanging, creating asymmetrical gabled breaks. A timber-framed, two-storey gabled porch is positioned against the gable end of the east range. The windows are leaded casements, some located in hipped roof semi-dormers, with stone mullions on the ground floor. The east front features first-floor stone slate hanging that sweeps out to form a ground floor verandah, while the gabled block to the right includes a two-storey polygonal oriel window. The house is situated in a large garden on a corner site with Oxford Road.