Monyhull Hall

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SP 07 NE 997/17/11

BIRMINGHAM, Maypole B30 ST FRANCIS DRIVE, Monyhull Hall (No. 47)

(Formerly listed as Main Block to Monyhull Hospital, MONYHULL HALL ROAD)

08.07.1982

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House. Built 1730s by John Arderne, on or near site of earlier house; remodelled and extended in 1863 for Ezra Millward; psychiatric hospital from c 1905-08; converted into apartments in early C21. Stucco; slate roof. Three storeys; 7 bays in the rhythm 2:3:2, the centre 3 advanced a little. Ground floor with banded rustication, a central door flanked by pilasters carrying an entablature whose volutes are draped with foliage, and 6 sash windows. Band at first floor sill level. First and second floors with quoins left and right and with the centre bays demarcated by giant Corinthian pilasters. First floor with 7 sash windows, those of the centre bays taller than the others and all in moulded surrounds, those of the outer bays eared. Second floor with 7 almost square casement windows in moulded surrounds. Elaborate bracketed eaves cornice. To the left, a 2 storey one bay in a generally similar style but altered on the ground floor by the insertion of a canted bay window. SOURCE: Demidowicz, T. Report for Birmingham City Council, 1st Sept.1998.

Listing NGR: SP0677979104