116, 120 AND 120A, MOSELEY ROAD B12

Nos 116, 120, and 120A on Moseley Road are a pair of stucco-faced villas built around 1840-1850. They are notable for their three prominent two-storey bow windows. Number 116 features one bow with a narrow recessed entrance bay to the right and a standard width bay to the left. Number 120 is double-fronted, with two bows flanking the entrance bay and a narrow extension to the right. The ground floor is enamelled and rusticated up to the first-floor sill course, which is set higher on the bows. There is a bed mould to the frieze on the flanking and entrance bays, and a moulded cornice with a blocking course that projects over the bows.

The bows on the ground floor have enamelled pilasters flanking the front window panel, with blind narrow panels on the sides. The mouldings extend out for a short strip before returning to the wall plane. On the first floor, there are simply moulded panels that correspond with the ground floor. The ground floor features tripartite curved sashes, while the first floor has curved single sashes set in incised panelled architraves with moulded cornices. The entrance bays have similar narrow windows on the first floor topped with segmental pediments. The ground floor entablature of the bow windows extends across the doorheads.

The villas have panelled reveals, four-panel doors with rectangular fanlights, and the flanking bays have architrave surrounds to the first-floor windows, with plain revealed windows in rusticated ground floors. There are round-headed side entrances. These villas are an unusual example of Birmingham housing from this period, resembling more closely the style found in Bayswater and Notting Hill.