68 And 68A, Harborne Road B15

Nos 68 and 68A on Harborne Road is a Grade II listed building, a small villa built around 1840 with three bays, which was enlarged between 1855 and 1860. The new addition, which became the main house, is located at the corner, while the original part (No 68A) serves as the service wing. The original section features a symmetrical façade with a plat band and a central doorway topped by a fanlight, and it has a hipped slate roof with revealed glazing bar sash windows.

The 1855-60 Italianate addition is taller and also faced with stucco, featuring a plinth, rusticated quoins, and an applied parapet above the ground floor cornice. The elevation facing Harborne Road is asymmetrical, with a broad external chimney stack on the right and an off-centre pilastered porch that has a pilastered archivolt arched window above it. To the left, there is a low set fan of similar windows. The southwest return has two similar windows on the left above a pilastered tripartite rectangular bay window with a pent roof. The southeast garden front showcases a triple group of archivolt arched windows, eared architrave sash windows, and a large window with a bracketed cornice. The original house on this front features glazing bar sashes and a well-designed geometrical trellis verandah.