Houses & gardens in West MidlandsWest Midlands, England

10 houses and gardens in the Albion Guide across West Midlands — see the full houses and gardens directory, or everything to explore in West Midlands.

Birmingham Botanical Gardens

A John Claudius Loudon design of 1832, arranged around four Victorian glasshouses.

Arts-and-Crafts house rich in Pre-Raphaelite art.

A Birmingham park given by Louisa Ryland in 1873, laid out with ornamental lakes.

A formal garden of around 1700, among England's most complete, with a holly walk.

Joseph Paxton's 1847 garden cemetery, holding a mass grave from the Coventry Blitz.

William Shenstone's poetic 'ferme ornée' of 1743, once among the most visited gardens in Europe.

A Victorian people's park on old racecourse land with an 1882 cast-iron bandstand.

A National Trust place in West Midlands.

Birmingham's first nonconformist burial ground of 1836, where Joseph Chamberlain lies.

One of Britain's oldest working allotment sites, its Victorian plots each with an ornamental summer house.