Metchley Abbey

Metchley Abbey, located on Metchley Lane in Selly Oak, is an early 19th-century building with later 19th-century additions, designed in a Picturesque Gothic style. The structure has two storeys and features six bays, with the fourth bay projecting to include the porch. The outer bays have canted sides. Most windows are casements set in moulded surrounds, featuring Y- or intersecting tracery, except for the ground floor window in bay five, which is of Palladian type. The building has a parapet adorned with blank quatrefoils and triplets of pointed arches, along with polygonal chimney stacks. Inside, there is a groined vault in the entrance hall, Gothic fireplaces, and a staircase. To the left of the main building is a service wing. Notably, the artist David Cox frequently visited Metchley Abbey, and it was also home to A. E. Greeman, a historian of the Norman Conquest, and Sir Granville Bantock.