Malvern House
Introduction
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Malvern House
Image: © Tiger Taken: 11 Jun 2010
The historic 16th-century building with later additions, glimpsed through the trees from the site of the former Cedarhurst School in Park Road, well illustrates Solihull's civic motto "Urbs in rure" - the town in the country. It was the original home of the Old Grammar School (founded in 1560). Dr Samuel Johnson, the great lexicographer, applied for the Headmastership here in 1735 but was rejected as "a very haughty, ill-natured gent" with a disconcerting habit of "distorting his fface [sic]". After the main school relocated to Warwick Road in 1882, the building continued in use as the Lower School (Gaywood House) for several decades. See also Image and for a view from the other side, with a link to the Grade II* listing, see Richard Law's Image
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Image Location
Latitude
52.411213
Longitude
-1.772381