18, DORA ROAD B10

DORA ROAD 1. 5104 Small Heath B10 No 18 SP 18 NW 8/6 II GV 2. Dated 1899, and built as vicarage to St Oswald's Church, architect W H Bidlake. Good restrained Arts and Crafts design typical of Bidlake's domestic work. L-plan 2 storeys and attic red brick with stone dressings, shallow flat band over ground floor, the design dominated by a fine hipped tiled roof with deep flat eaves on wrought iron brackets, steep pyramid hip over right hand break of front. Small flat roofed leaded dormers. Lofty panelled subtly detailed chimney stack to right. Flush stone mullioned windows, transomed on ground floor with inner window butting the stone door frame in corner. The break has a large mullion-transomed canted bay window on ground floor with hipped tile roof. Leaded iron casements. Restrained interior with simple mouldings and door furniture.

Listing NGR: SP1021685597