Going down Westbourne Road in Edgbaston.

This is the City South Campus of Birmingham City University in Edgbaston. Also known as Westbourne Campus.

I once went here when it was the UCE, in the previous building (when I was in my last years of Primary School for a day - can't recall why we went here though).

Before the UCE, it was the Birmingham Polytechnic Campus in Edgbaston.

Lodge near the University. Grade II listed.

Lodge to City of Birmingham Polytechnic Men's Hostels, Birmingham

WESTBOURNE ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 Lodge to the City of Birmingham Polytechnic Men's Hostels SP 0585 NW 39/18 II 2. Dated 1879 with the owners initials REC. Lodge to now demolished house. Red brick; tiled roof with ornamental ridge tiles and a big central ribbed chimney stack. Roughly cruciform in plan with a gable to the road half timbered with brick nogging and 2 arched panels of blue Japanese sunflower tiles. In the angle, a hip roofed porch. Half hipped gable towards the drive with elaborately pierced bargeboards and terracotta finial. Ground floor with a canted bay window and, to the upper floor, a Gothic traceried window with ogee glazing bars of white timber flanked by panels of sunflower tiles and carried on a foliated bressumer.

Listing NGR: SP0504685542

The former lodge to Oakmount, dated 1879 and inscribed REC, for Richard Chamberlain, Joseph's brother. Almost certainly J.H. Chamberlain and showing a move towards Shaw's and Nesfield's Domestic Revival. The roof folds over the hipped w. gable, with its canted bay and tiny traceried window above between half-timbered panels, sw porch, and chamfered nw projection. Big chimney with flutes twisted halfway up.