Former Entrance Lodge To Rubery Hill Hospital

The building is a former entrance lodge, dating to circa 1882, originally built as part of Rubery Hill Hospital. It was designed by Martin and Chamberlain for the Borough of Birmingham Lunatic Asylum Committee of Visitors, and has undergone 20th-century alterations and additions. The lodge is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, featuring gable stacks with moulded brickwork, a plain tiled roof with crested ridges and terracotta finials.

The west elevation, two storeys high with four bays, includes an advanced gable to the right and an entrance positioned in the angle of the two ranges, sheltered by an open porch supported on moulded timber posts. The entrance door is made up of six panels, with the upper four glazed and topped by a rectangular overlight. To the left of the door are two ground-floor windows, one tall with an upper sash of twelve lights over an undivided lower sash and a steeply sloping ashlar cill; a smaller window without glazing bars sits alongside. A window above the doorway interrupts the bracketed eaves. The advanced gable features two tall, narrow sashes without glazing bars to the ground floor, and coupled first-floor sashes to the gable centre, incorporating slender box framing above a moulded terracotta band. Brick nogging fills the spaces within the framing. The gable has moulded bargeboards with a drop finial. The south elevation includes a gablet above a canted bay window and a moulded terracotta band returned above. An advanced gable to the garden front features a moulded band below eaves brackets, with a chimney breast expressed within the gable. A single first-floor sash is positioned to the left of the gable apex. A tall lean-to extends beyond the line of the gable. The interior of the lodge has not been inspected but likely contains features of architectural interest.