Odeon Cinema

The Odeon Cinema is a cinema built in 1936, designed by William Calder Robson, following the work of J Cecil Clavering, for Oscar Deutsch and the Odeon group of companies. It features a brown brick and faience exterior, with a roof that is not visible. The building is notionally two storeys and has an attic with a tower positioned between its sections. The facade has five bays and a rounded corner entrance, with a deep plan that consists of four bays on one side and three on the other.

The corner entrance, located on the right, has four renewed double doors set beneath a canopy and a wall decorated with green-banded faience. This entrance is in front of a round-ended wing that projects to the right, featuring a strip window at the right end and the word 'ODEON' illuminated beneath a parapet with a green band. To the left of the entrance is a brick tower that is flanked by a tall faience fin displaying 'CINEMA' in red letters on each side. The facade to the left of the tower includes an exit next to five tall strip windows that rise from a black faience plinth. Above each window is a small rectangular window, and there is a green-banded parapet with horizontal slit windows. The end bay to the left is made of brick and has a door surrounded by faience under two square windows. The right return is also brick, with piers between the bays and a brick-banded parapet wall; the bays step down on the right side.

Inside, the lobby features a staircase that rises between tall rounded piers and has a coffered ceiling. The auditorium has been altered, with a later screen placed in front of the original, concealing the finned side-wall panels and the coved and rounded screen side-piers. The cinema was built to seat 1,647 people and is a copy of the Sutton Coldfield Odeon. Attached shops to the front left are not of special interest.