114 Middleton Hall Road

A doctor's surgery and former residence constructed in 1905, altered in the late 20th century.

The building is constructed of red brick in stretcher bond with stone dressings, roughcast render to the first floor, and a clay tiled roof. It forms a long linear range running north-south parallel to Selly Oak Road with an additional, shorter frontage to Middleton Hall Road to the south.

The exterior is built in a vernacular Arts and Crafts style, comprising two storeys with a converted loft. The steeply pitched gable roof is complemented by a hipped roof range to the south. The building presents frontages onto both Middleton Hall Road and Selly Oak Road. The sprawling east elevation features a roughly central projecting brick gable with a timber oriel window and a large brick stack with dentilled cornice to the south. An additional stack at the roof apex contains projecting bricks arranged to read vertically as Roman numerals '1905'. To the north is a further rendered gable with an additional stack behind.

Ground floor windows are stone with a mixture of mullions and transoms, all retaining their early 20th-century leaded panes with some simple stained glass to the upper lights. A single-light leaded window sits to the left of the north entrance door. First-floor windows are timber, all containing leaded casements with scrolling wrought iron window furniture. To the south is a projecting entrance porch, altered in the early 20th century, containing the principal entrance.

The south elevation, facing Middleton Hall Road, contains a large gable with a steeply pitched hipped roof behind. The large brick stack on the east elevation, together with an additional tall brick stack to the west, frames the façade. A further oriel timber window sits at the centre of the rendered gable, with a large mullion timber window with leaded lights to the left. A pentice roof projects from the ground floor, supported by a pair of canted bays with stone mullion and transom windows. The windows have leaded upper lights with stained glass and original iron window furniture. A timber door sits on the inward face of each bay, beneath the projecting roof.

The west elevation surrounds a small courtyard enclosed by 20th-century extensions projecting to the north and south. At the south end of the elevation, at the centre of a brick gable, is a large leaded stair window with stained glass in a swag design to the upper lights. To the north, the remainder of the first floor is rendered with an additional gable at the north end. The first-floor windows are original leaded timber casements with iron window furniture. The ground floor contains windows replaced in the late or early 20th century, all double-glazed uPVC with some faux leading, set in their original openings under brick segmental arches. A further brick stack with dentilled cornice is situated at the north end of this elevation.

The north elevation is dominated by a single-storey late 20th-century extension. Behind the extension, the earlier building retains on its first floor an original two-light leaded casement.

Internally, the principal entrance is situated through an entrance porch at the south-east end of the building. An early 20th-century door is half-glazed with leaded stained glass in a simple geometric pattern within three lights, matching the windows elsewhere. A further door with leaded lights and a chunky brass handle leads from a vestibule into the main entrance hall. A newel post stair with closed string is situated at the west end of the room and has square-section turned balusters. The large leaded stair window is situated on the west wall of the half-landing above. Beneath the stair is a section of timber panelling.

To the south of the stair are the building's two main reception rooms, until recently in use as a waiting area and offices for the doctors' surgery, featuring two bay windows at their south ends. The original plan has been altered with the opening up of these areas and the insertion of late 20th-century partitions and windows between the rooms to separate the surgery's reception area. Fireplace surrounds have been retained within the entrance hallway and within the waiting room, with grates removed and the fireplaces blocked. The building continues to the north of the principal stair with a series of further consultation and storerooms; some rooms within the 1905 footprint retain their panelled doors and original door furniture. At the north end of the original building is a further staircase with closed string and stick balusters. The newel post's ball finial is truncated, likely to have once held a lamp fitting.

On the first floor, the principal stair rises to a landing with inserted 20th-century glazing into a door within an original arch, with further glazing to either side. The post at the top of the stair retains its original fitted brass lamp on the top of the finial. Beyond the door is a waiting room with fixed late 20th-century benches to the perimeter, featuring the building's oriel window at the east end. To the south are two further rooms, each with a surviving fireplace surround. The east room has a further oriel window with original leaded glazing on its south wall. The ceiling features delicate plaster decoration following the perimeter of the room. To the north of the first-floor waiting room, an original moulded arch with deep curved skirting leads to a cloakroom. Two steps descend to the north range with a series of further consultation rooms and offices, some retaining their original doors. An additional room at the east end of this range retains a further fireplace surround. To the north is an additional stair accessing the loft area on the second floor.

The second-floor loft space was converted to provide teaching suites in the late 20th century and has largely modern finishes with inserted Velux-style windows.