Selly Oak Colleges

[Stokkie]

The University of Birmingham announced that it intends to sell parts of its Selly Oak campus for development. Alan Geale House, Archibald House, The Close, the Refectory and Chapel.

History of Selly Oak Colleges on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selly_Oak_Colleges


https://thetab.com/2025/09/03/birmi...-oak-campus-as-more-housing-and-land-promised

This story now picked up by the regional and national press.

 

[Stokkie]

Arts and Crafts houses with a Cadbury connection:

https://superstructuresassociates.co.uk/cadbury-family-homes-to-be-redeveloped/

University's own page on this:

Selly Oak development - University of Birmingham

We are selling two sections of our Selly Oak campus. This page will contain the latest information. The sections include Alan Geale House, Archibald House, The Close, the Refectory and Chapel.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

 

[Stokkie]

Numbers 1-2 The Close are grade ll listed.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1291077?section=official-list-entry

But The Close has been neglected.
https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-battle-for-the-close/

And Viv's thread from 2015
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/the-close-selly-oak.45708/