Kingswood House, Alcester Road South, Druids Heath

[Lady Penelope]

Does anyone have any information on Kingswood House please? It's the wrong side of town for me and the road may be wrong but I was asked to see what I could discover. Definitely in Druid's Heath and it was there until mid 1960's.

 

[brummy-lad]

On the 1921 census there is a Kingswood House mentioned at King's Heath less than 3 miles away.

 

[Pedrocut]

Was Kingswood House, Druid’s Heath, block of flats of at least 9 floors ?

 

[brummy-lad]

This is the link to it on the 1889 map

Georeferenced Maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

 

[mikejee]

Kingswood house is marked (or rahte ra group of buildings is marked on the 1903 map below. The road it is on going north to south is Alcester Road South.



The 1950s map showa a Kingswood Farm. but i would have said that the biodling marked as the farm is the same as what i would have thought was the earlier one marked housw, being apparently at the apex of the drive

 

[mikejee]

You can see where it was from the 1903 map by moving the blue marker to the left at

Georeferenced Maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland

After its demolition, I believe a block of flats was built, later demolished

 

[brummy-lad]

Was Kingswood House, Druid’s Heath, block of flats of at least 9 floors ?

It is now, a bit of poetic licence naming it Kingswood House, it doesn't seem that close to the original.

 

[Pedrocut]

Kingswood House is shown on the 1840 tithe Map.

 

[mikejee]

Kingswood house is marked (or rahte ra group of buildings is marked on the 1903 map below. The road it is on going north to south is Alcester Road South.

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The 1950s map showa a Kingswood Farm. but i would have said that the biodling marked as the farm is the same as what i would have thought was the earlier one marked housw, being apparently at the apex of the drive

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Regarding my comment on it looking as if the building marked as Kingswood farm, looks like it might have been the earlier House, a cooment at
http://www.birminghamconservationtr...ere two Kingswood,the site of Maypole Library. says:
Confusingly there were two Kingswood Farms at the Maypole, the
other being Kingswood House Farm which was north of the Maypole on the western side of the Alcester Road, close to the site of Maypole Library. I knew both reasonably well in the 1960s and photographed Kingswood Farm off Druid’s Lane in 1966. It is reproduced in King’s Norton: A History by George Demidowicz & Stephen Price, (Phillimore & Co, 2009) p.85.
And Carl is right about the wartime remains there. I remember them too.They have become part of the archaeology of the second world war now and have been the subject of a recent survey. See Mick
Wilks The Defence of Worcestershire and the southern approaches to Birmingham in World War II (Logaston Press, 2007). There’s a section about the anti-aircraft gun site there with photographs, plans and detailed drawings between pages 172-174.’

The photo he mentions is below, and does look a bit more like a residence than a farm house