Type House Completed 1899 (1899) Opened 1899 Architectural style Arts and Crafts movement | Country England Designations Grade II* listed Town or city Birmingham Designation Listed building | |
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Address 137, Handsworth Wood Road, Handsworth Wood Similar St Silas' Church - Lozells, Fox Hollies Hall, The Endwood, St Benedict's Church - B, Public Library and Baths - Ba | ||
The Anchorage is a Grade II* listed building in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England.
Map of The Anchorage, 137 Handsworth Wood Rd, Birmingham B20 2PJ, UK
It was built in 1899, to Arts and Crafts-style designs by Joseph Crouch and Edmund Butler, as a house for Alfred Constantine, a manufacturing jeweller. At the time, the area was in Staffordshire. The building is made of brick, with stone dressing and applied timber framing. The roof is tiled, with an off-centre cupola.
A fire in around 1977 burnt the main hall's minstrels' gallery and a set of murals, The Hunt and Feast, by Fred Davis. Other interior fittings include metal work by a member of the Bromsgrove Guild, possibly Benjamin Creswick, and embroidery by Mary Newill, who also made stained glass for some of the windows.
The building was granted protection from unauthorised alteration through Grade II* listed designation on 8 July 1982.
It was subsequently converted for use as a multi-occupation hostel by HDA Architecture. As of 2015, the building was occupied by the Jesus Fellowship Church.