68 And 68A, Harborne Road B15

HARBORNE ROAD 1. 5104 (south side) Edgbaston B15 Nos 68 and 6dA SP 0485 NE 38/22 II GV 2. Corner site. A small C184O 3 bay stucco villa enlarged C1855-60, the new addition to corner becoming the main house with the original (No 68A) as the service wing. The original part has a symmetrical elevation with plat band and central doorway with fanlight. Hipped slate roof. Revealed glazing bar sashes. The 1855-60 Italianate addition is taller, also stucco faced with plinth, rusticated quoins, applied parapet over ground floor cornice; console brackets to eaves of hipped slate roof. Elevation to Harborne Road asymmetrical with broad external chimney stack with bracket corniced shaft to right hand; off centre pilastered porch with pilastered archivolt arched window above; low set fan of similar windows to left. The south west return has 2 similar windows to left hand above pilastered tripartite rectangular bay window with pent roof. South east garden front has a triple group of archivolt arched windows, eared architrage sash windows and a big window with bracketed cornice. The original house on this front has glazing bar sashes and a good geometrical trellis verandah.

Listing NGR: SP0491385702