Edgbaston Quaker Meeting House

This is an 1893 Quaker Meeting House, designed by William Henman. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings, and has slate roofs. It has a roughly L-shaped layout, with the main meeting room oriented north-west to south-east, a smaller meeting room adjacent, a corridor, and a main entrance facing east.

The building is distinguished by the tall sections containing the meeting rooms, and a lower range housing the entrance. The main entrance is at an angle and is set within a stone portico with a pediment and a date stone showing '1893', featuring carved acanthus leaf detailing. The doorway has a deeply moulded arch with low pilasters and engaged columns, also with acanthus decoration. The double oak door has raised and fielded panels and brass fittings. Beyond the entrance is a range with windows in stone surrounds and dentilled eaves.

The two meeting rooms are situated behind this lower range. The main meeting room has a gable facing south-east with an open pediment and a Venetian window in a stone surround. The smaller meeting room's gable faces south-west and has similar treatment. The sides of the meeting rooms have further windows, some with flat-headed surrounds, further Venetian windows, and some with small pedimented surrounds.

Inside, the main entrance opens into a small lobby leading to a corridor, both with terrazzo flooring. Timber panelled doors and tongue and groove panelling are found throughout. The smaller meeting room features an exposed timber roof structure with carved detailing on the trusses.

The larger main meeting room has a similar roof structure of four bays. Classical-style plasterwork decorates the walls, incorporating pilasters, an entablature, and a central pedimented feature along the rear wall. Arched mouldings frame the windows, featuring timber surrounds; the surrounds to the Venetian windows and square windows sit within these arched plaster mouldings.

Two pairs of gate posts with timber gates provide access to the plot. The gate posts are of rusticated brick. The pair to the south has ornately carved stone caps; the pair to the east is missing its caps. The gates are timber with open panels along the top, with decorative iron grilles.