Great Barr Hall

Outside the chapel are the burial plots of several of Lady Bateman Scott's pets, inscribed with poems she wrote for them.

[2] Financial problems led the Scott Family (who gave their name to the nearby Scott Arms pub and shopping centre), to lease out the hall from about 1788 to Samuel Galton, and for some years the Hall became a venue for meetings of the Lunar Society.

In 1791, Sir Francis Scott, 3rd Baronet, inherited the manor of Great Barr from his maternal uncle Thomas Hoo and was able to return to live in the house on the expiry of the lease.

In 2006, Bovis Homes purchased the 40 hectare estate and obtained planning permission for the redevelopment of the site.

Nether Hall Park a new residential housing development, occupying a substantial part of the estate, was completed in the 2010s.

In May 2011 the hall, still in ruins, was put up for sale for £2.2 million,[6] by the Manor Building Preservation Trust,[6] who had been allowed to purchase it nine years earlier[6] for £900,000.

It failed to sell, and so was offered for sale by auction on 6 February 2012, by Van Weenan Estate Agents of London, with a guide price of £1,250,000.

Avenue Lodge in December 2016
Handsworth Lodge seen in November 2016
Walsall Lodge on a Frank Nightingale postcard. The herring-bone pattern brickwork has since been overpainted