Fairyfield House is a late 18th Century Grade II Listed Building, now converted to flats.
The original three lodges still exist on the Newton Road
The building was re-furbished during 2008.
Residents
The following have been residents of Fairyfield House
Stephen Stokes
JP staffordshire 1873. His son, Frederick Charles Stokes (b. 13th Feb c.1864) attended Rugby School which he left in 1877.
George Robert Jebb
George Robert Jebb was appointed as engineer to the Birmingham Canal Network on the 1st March 1875 at a salary of £250. He had a long and distinguished career, having in addition to his work for the BCN been an engineer to the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company. He was a friend of Frank Webb the LNWR locomotive engineer who ruled Creww locomotive works for a long period of time. George was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He died on the 16th February 1927. He had been engineer and consultant for 39 years and a BCN committee member for 13 years. He was born in Baschurch in Shropshire in 1839, his father was the station master at Baschurch station on the LNWR. Later in his life when working on the BCN he was living in Fairyfield House in Newtown Road, Great Barr. Ref: BCN
also Georgina M Jebb was noted as a resident (Artist?)
Fairyfield Lodges
The lodge (or sometimes called cottages) consists of a single building with three properties.
The census information often does not clearly separate the houses residents from the lodge, further information is being gathered.