Farm, Bordesley

Farm is a historic estate within the former manor of Bordesley,[1] now situated in the area of Sparkbrook, a suburb of Birmingham, England.

He retained the Tudor farmhouse and built near it "Farm" an eponymous mansion house, which survives as a grade II* listed building known today as "Lloyd's Farmhouse, Farm Park, 139 Sampson Road, Birmingham", one of the most important of the rare surviving Georgian buildings in the city of Birmingham.

[8] Lloyd spent most of his time in his large town house in Edgbaston Street, Birmingham, returning to Farm, his rural retreat, at weekends.

Farm was donated to the City in the 1920s by John Henry Lloyd (1855-1944), of Edgbaston Grove, Birmingham,[9] Lord Mayor of Birmingham in 1901-1902[10] (only son of George Braithwaite Lloyd (1824-1903) by his wife Mary[11] Hutchinson[12]) and the grounds laid out as a public park.

[13] One of his four sons, Alan Scrivener Lloyd (d.1916), MC, broke the family tradition of pacifism and was killed in action at Ypres in World War I.

Farm, the Georgian mansion built on the "Owen's Farm" estate within the manor of Bordesley, by Sampson II Lloyd (1699–1779). Still set within a ten acre remnant (a public recreation ground known as "Farm Park") of its former 56 acre grounds. Now surrounded by the urban landscape of Sparkbrook and the suburbs of Birmingham
Portrait of Sampson Lloyd II (1699–1779) an iron-master and co-founder of Lloyds Bank , who purchased the estate in 1742 and built the surviving Georgian mansion, which he called "The Farm" or "Farm". Collection of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
English Heritage blue plaque on the building