Heathfield Hall

Heathfield Hall (sometimes referred to as Heathfield House) was a house in Handsworth, Staffordshire (the area became part of Birmingham in 1911[1]), England, built for the engineer James Watt.

Watt died in the house in 1819, and was buried at nearby St Mary's Church.

[2] The contents - over 8,300 objects, including the furniture, window, door and floorboards - were removed in 1924 and used to recreate the room at the Science Museum in London, where they may still be viewed.

[2] After a series of subsequent owners who had slowly sold off the associated lands for development of semi-detached villas, in the 1880s engineer George Tangye bought Heathfield Hall.

After his family sold the house, from 1927 the hall was demolished and the lands redeveloped.

Watt's workroom at Heathfield, painted in 1889 by Jonathon Pratt
Heathfield Hall, on an Ordnance OS six-inch map of the period 1888-1913