The Hazrat Khadijatul Kubra Girls School and Madrasah

The Hazrat Khadijatul Kubra Girls School and Madrasah is an educational building dating from 1879, constructed by Martin and Chamberlain for the Birmingham School Board. Subsequent alterations and extensions occurred around 1894, 1911, and 1931, with a late 20th-century addition to the north-east. The building is constructed primarily of red brick with tiled roofs, decorative ridge tiles, and brick stacks. Dressings consist of cut brick, stone, and some terracotta detailing. The original timber windows are largely intact.

The main building fronts Cooksey Road and features a ventilation and stair tower at its west end, with principal extensions to the south-east. The original range is two storeys high with an attic. The street frontage has five bays, each featuring paired rectangular windows, the upper ones being shorter. These windows are set within recesses of beaded brick, with gauged brick lintels and stone sills, and are accented by raised and third brick bands. A billet moulding runs beneath the gable eaves. Dormer windows with half-timbered gables are located to the west. The tower has two narrow windows with quatrefoil openings on the south-west side and paired arched openings with hood moulds on the north-west. Chamfered corners rise towards the tower top, where angle buttresses with gablets finish in a small 'belfry' with wooden louvres, supported by ringed columns with leaf bases and capitals. A quatrefoil sits atop a gable at the apex, further accented by an iron finial. A lower gabled bay sits directly below the tower. The rear of the original building is divided into four gabled sections, each containing three or four windows surmounted by gables; the central two gables contain Diocletian windows. Numerous alterations to this rear face include adaptations of windows to create door openings. The south-east frontage displays a late 19th-century addition with angled gables and irregular window placement, followed by early 20th-century additions and a later 20th-century flat-roofed extension. A sign board is centrally positioned on this elevation.

Internally, the building has undergone substantial alterations in the 20th and 21st centuries, although the original layout remains discernible and some notable features remain. The ground and first floors each contain a formal hall at the front, from which classrooms extended to the rear and sides. The first-floor hall has a hammerbeam roof with arched braces and pierced sexfoils, with recent timber partitions dividing the space beneath the roof. The ground-floor hall has a vaulted fireproof ceiling and boarded dado panelling with moulded rails. Many of the original classrooms have been subdivided. Ground-floor openings between the hall and outer rooms are wide pointed arches, with some retaining original doors featuring chamfered rails and muntins within glazed surrounds.