1721-1727, HIGH STREET

Nos 1721-1727 on High Street in Solihull is a row of almshouses built in 1885 by William Hawley Lloyd of Birmingham, designed in a Queen Anne revival style. The buildings are constructed of brick with moulded brick dressings and some stone details, topped with plain tiled roofs. The structure features a tall single ridge stack with oversailing cornicing on the left and paired similar ridge stacks on the right. The plan includes two tall gabled cross wings, with lateral side wings on either side, connected by a short lower block.

The ground floor has bay windows beneath both gables, each with leaded bell-cast roofs and inset doorways between them. The gables are adorned with two tiers of cut and moulded brick decoration, resembling Perpendicular Gothic tracery panels. The linking block has two boarded doors and is topped with a moulded stone parapet and two urns. There is a single window in the right-hand wing. The end gables of the row feature tracery-panelled gables and ogee Tudor-arched dripmoulds, which extend as bands over a boarded door and a window. An inset stone plaque on the left-hand gable provides details about the foundation of the almshouses.