It is listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.

In 1844 the southern third was given up, because of excessive expenditure, and was laid out by the 3rd Baron Calthorpe as a set of gardens.

[1][2] By the late 19th century, The Westbourne Road Gardens were among the few such sites that remained in Birmingham.

Some plots were later lost: in the 1880s when the railway line on the southern border (opened as a single track line in 1876) became a double track line; in the inter-war period due to expansion of the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society; and in the 1950s to create playing fields for Edgbaston Girls' School.

The plots, divided by traditional hawthorne hedges, are in three main strips separated by access tracks.