79-83, COLMORE ROW B3

COLMORE ROW 1. 5104 City Centre B3 Nos 79 to 83 (odd) SP 0687 SE 29/10 21.1.70 II GV 2. Late C19. Stone. Three storeys; 5 bays, the inner 3 slightly advanced. Ground floor with an arched side entrance up steps and beneath a segmental hood born on headless birds as brackets, a large arched window on a vermiculated surround. The principal entrance up steps, arched and within a porch with coupled Corinthian columns and balcony and then another large window and side entrance. First floor with, centrally, 3 windows with balconies and flanking unfluted Corinthian columns carrying heavily ornate segmental pediments with urns and outer windows in moulded surrounds and with detached segmental pediment. Second floor with an arcade of 7 small arched windows with much sculpture in the spandrels and aprons and, left, Lorenzo Ghiberti and, right, Benvenuto Cellini. Above, in the centre, a richly decorated and bracketted cornice with attic balustrade.

Listing NGR: SP0685387037