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unusual facts about 12 Ampton Road



John Henry Chamberlain

The first of these to be completed, Eld's house at 12 Ampton Road, Edgbaston (1855) survives to this day and already shows many of the features that would characterise much of Chamberlain's later work: a gothic structure in polychromatic brick with finely crafted decoration inspired by natural and organic forms.


see also

John Henry Chamberlain

12 Ampton Road (Shenstone House), Edgbaston – Chamberlain's first house; 'the first High Victorian house in the town'