Parkgrove School

Parkgrove School is an early villa built around 1820-1830, located well back from the road at the end of a long drive in spacious grounds adjoining Edgbaston Park. It was formerly part of the Calthorpe Estate. The building is two storeys high, faced with stucco and topped with a hipped slate roof and flat eaves, featuring corniced stucco chimneys. The east entrance front has three bays with glazing bar sash windows set in round-edged reveals. The doorway is surrounded by an architrave and flanked by sidelights. The ground floor is screened by a cast iron trellis verandah with a tent roof, and the centre bay is pedimented.

The south garden front also has three bays, with a plinth and sill band. It features similar windows to the entrance front, along with a tripartite bow window on the ground floor. Extending to the west is a wing with large Gothic windows, dating from around 1840, which have three lights with cast iron glazing bars and stained glass set in tracery.

Internally, the house underwent significant modifications in the mid-19th century and again in the late 1970s to 1980s. The room with the iron Gothic windows boasts an elaborately painted ceiling with quatrefoil panels from around 1850-1860 and a heavy marble shafted fireplace. The dining room features fine oak panelling with crocket and stiff leaf ornament, along with a medieval fireplace that shows some influence from Burgess, complete with massive marble shafts and a "reredos" overmantel with a grafitto decorated hood. The door furniture is notable, particularly the ironwork of the hinges.

The staircase, dating from around 1880, has been Gothicised with twisted iron balusters and decorated finialed wooden newel posts. At the rear, near the service wing, a two-storey red brick addition was made around 1870-1880, which includes a former chapel on the ground floor with five windows featuring Lincoln tracery; the interior has been altered.