The Quadrangle

MARY VALE ROAD 1. 5104 Bournville B30 The Quadrangle (formerly listed as Bournville Almshouses) SP 0484 NE 57/5 II 21.1.70 2. 1897 by Ewan Harper for Richard Cadbury. In the traditional form of single-storeyed almshouses set around a spacious quadrangle. Red brick with stone dressings; tile roof. In a Tudor style. The principal facade to Mary Vale Road with a centrepiece of gatehouse type with flanking wings. The gatehouse 2-storeyed with turrets left and right and a projecting porch with oriel window over. To the left, the matron's rooms, to the right the chapel. To the road the houses with canted bay windows beneath timber-framed gables; to the quadrangle, the round headed entrances to the houses in pairs beneath timber-framed gables. In the centre of the quadrangle, a shelter like that on The Green but here rectangular in plan. Pyramidal tiled roof with gabled dormers in each side and a lantern, all supported on wooden columns.

Listing NGR: SP0463480805