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Birmingham City University (the former UCE / University of Central England)
Ruskin Hall on Linden Road and Woodbrooke Road.
Grade II Listed Building
Bournville School of Art and Crafts
Description
In the entry for
LINDEN ROAD
Bournville B30
55/2
Bournville School of
Arts and Crafts
The last sentence of the description should be amended to read:
"Modern extension to right not of special interest".
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LINDEN ROAD
1.
5104
Bournville B30
Bournville School of
Art and Crafts
[formerly listed as
Ruskin Memorial Institute
(Ruskin Hall)]
SF 0481 SW 55/2 21.1.70
II GV
2.
1902-5, by W Alexander Harvey. Inspired by J H Whitehouse, a friend of Ruskin, and
originally called Ruskin Hall. Brick with stone dressings; tiled roof. Irregular
L-shaped composition. On the left a cabled bay, then the roof sweeps down low over
the main hall which has, on the right, a tall narrow gabled stairwell. On the right,
the broad gabled short-arm of the L with bold canted bay window. In the angle, the
low stone porch approached up steps and with a square sculptured panel over the
segment-headed entrance. All the window with mullions and mostly transoms also.
In the roof dormer windows with leaded lights as have all the other windows. To
the right, a modern extension.
Listing NGR: SP0437681371
RUSKIN HALL (now Birmingham City University), Linden Road. By Harvey, 1902-5, as the village institute a national memorial to John Ruskin, inspired by his Whitehouse. Original the big N wing and the range running a with swept roofs and small dormers. Entrance under gable. Tudor details, some slightly wilful, e.g. the p bay-window parapet. s wing with cross-gabled com by Harvey & Wicks, 1928. Nw extension by Harvey 1956, extended E, with another gable to Linden Road, Architects, 1966. Moulded plasterwork in the library with twisted iron uprights and a tapering wooden post band of rose decoration. Refurbished by Associates 2002, with glazed infill on the w.
Pevsner
The National Trust is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Trust was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley to "promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the Nation of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest". It has since been given statutory powers, starting with the National Trust Act 1907. Historically, the Trust acquired land by gift and sometimes by public subscription and appeal, but after World War II the loss of country houses resulted in many such properties being acquired either by gift from the former owners or through the National Land Fund.
One of the largest landowners in the United Kingdom, the Trust owns almost 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres; 2,500 km2; 970 sq mi) of land and 780 miles (1,260 km) of coast. Its properties include more than 500 historic houses, castles, archaeological and industrial monuments, gardens, parks, and nature reserves. Most properties are open to the public for a charge (members have free entry), while open spaces are free to all. The Trust had an annual income of nearly £724 million in 2023/24, largely from membership subscriptions, donations and legacies, direct property income, profits from its shops and restaurants, and investments. It also receives grants from a variety of organisations including other charities, government departments, local authorities, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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Victorian country house and 14th-century ruined castle with romantic garden in a wooded estate
* One of England's most romantic gardens
* Ruined 14th-century castle with moat
* Rare heather-thatched ice house
* Superb displays of rhododendrons and azaleas
* 311 hectares (770 acres) of beautiful estate parkland to explore
* Only NT-owned working hop farm
Sunday 1st October 2017. Aylesford Polo Trophy (Sponsored By Gurkha Welfare Trust).
Competing Teams: Gurkha Welfare Trust Polo Team vs Hollywood All Stars Polo Team.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
It took a few minutes of just sitting still and watching to get her to let me close enough to play and take pictures.
Nymans is an English garden in Haywards Heath, Sussex. It was developed, starting in the late 19th century, by three generations of the Messel family, and was brought to renown by Leonard Messel.
In 1953 Nymans became a National Trust property.[1] Nymans is the origin of many sports, selections and hybrids, both planned and serendipitous, some of which can be identified by the term nymansensis, "of Nymans". Eucryphia × nymansensis (E. cordifolia × E. glutinosa) is also known as E. "Nymansay". Magnolia × loebneri 'Leonard Messel', Camellia 'Maud Messel' and Forsythia suspensa 'Nymans', with its bronze young stems, are all familiar shrub to gardeners.
History
In the late 19th century, Ludwig Messel, a member of a German Jewish family, settled in England and bought the Nymans estate, a house with 600 acres on a sloping site overlooking the picturesque High Weald of Sussex. There he set about turning the estate into a place for family life and entertainment, with an Arts and Crafts-inspired garden room where topiary features contrast with new plants from temperate zones around the world. Messel's head gardener from 1895 was James Comber, whose expertise helped form plant collections at Nymans of camellias, rhododendrons, which unusually at the time were combined with planting heather (Erica) eucryphias and magnolias. William Robinson advised in establishing the Wild Garden.[2]
His son Colonel Leonard Messel succeeded to the property in 1915 and replaced the nondescript Regency house with the picturesque stone manor, designed by Sir Walter Tapper and Norman Evill in a mellow late Gothic/Tudor style. He and his wife Maud (daughter of Edward Linley Sambourne) extended the garden to the north and subscribed to seed collecting expeditions in the Himalayas and South America.
The garden reached a peak in the 1930s and was regularly opened to the public. The severe reduction of staff in World War II was followed in 1947 by a disastrous fire in the house, which survives as a garden ruin. The house was partially rebuilt and became the home of Leonard Messel's daughter[3] Anne Messel and her second husband the 6th Earl of Rosse. At Leonard Messel's death in 1953 it was willed to the National Trust with 275 acres of woodland, one of the first gardens taken on by the Trust. Lady Rosse continued to serve as Garden Director.
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