48 Selly Wick Road

48 Selly Wick Road is an Arts and Crafts style detached house designed by William Alexander Harvey and H Graham Wicks and built in 1913. It is constructed of hand-made reddish-brown brick, longer than standard bricks and laid in English bond with rubbed brick detailing, with tile roofs.

The house is built on a pinwheel plan, with the principal rooms ranged around a central entrance hall and service rooms arranged around an enclosed courtyard formed behind garages to the east. The building is roughly L-shaped, two storeys high, in a Tudor Arts and Crafts style, with the entrance front facing south and the garden front facing west.

The roofs are noticeably sprocketed. Moulded rectangular stacks feature diaper brickwork to their tops. Windows are dark-coloured timber casements with rectangular leaded glazing, except for the window to the left of the entrance which has diamond glazing as shown on the original drawings. Ground-floor windows are partly mullioned and transomed, while first-floor windows are generally of one, two or three lights.

The south (entrance) elevation features two parallel, contrasting gabled blocks. The left bay contains the entrance with a round-headed doorway and a small oriel window above, with the gable faced in waney-edged boarding. The projecting wing to its right has a hipped roof and a full-height bay projecting above eaves level as a parapet, faced in Cotswold stone slates. The garden front comprises a single block with a hipped roof. At the south-west corner, the L-shape is filled by a single-storey space, originally an open loggia with large round-arched openings to either elevation now infilled with multi-paned uPVC windows, with a further room added above featuring an additional gable. The rear elevation has a large flat-roofed extension to the ground floor, which is excluded from the listing. A small canted bay with hipped roof to the right accommodates a deep fireplace recess, with the stack rising above featuring two offsets. To the east of the house is the former service court, also excluded from the listing.

The interior features extensive wood-grained joinery throughout. Circulation areas and principal rooms have skirting boards, picture rails and panelled doors. Windows display elaborate scrolling catches in Arts and Crafts style. Principal rooms to each floor have moulded plaster cornices. The majority of fireplaces survive to the principal rooms, each of different design.

The entrance hall is treated as a room with a neo-Georgian corner fireplace with timber surround and tiled insert, and double doors to the adjacent drawing room. The drawing room has a deep fireplace recess forming a cosy corner with timber fire surround and arched niches with shell heads to either side, and a side light with stained glass. The room terminates in a deep canted bay with windows on all three sides. The dining room has a rubbed-brick fireplace and deeply-swept timber cornice rising to meet decorative ceiling joists. The deep bay window has a segmental arch over, with the window continuing upwards behind. The surviving part of the former kitchen retains a Regency-style reeded timber fire surround with tile inserts. The garden room, formerly an open loggia, retains its stone flag floor.

The open-well stair features a solid timber balustrade topped with a moulded handrail ramped as it rises; the balustrade continues at first-floor level to create a galleried landing. The stair is top-lit by a compartmental rectangular ceiling lantern. The bedrooms have various early 20th-century timber fireplaces with tile inserts. The principal bedroom has segmental-arched recesses to either side of the fireplace. A door from the landing with a decorative blind box over gives access to a new dressing room, formerly the balcony over the garden room.

The plot is accessed from the street through an entrance archway built in the same brick as the house, with a round-arched opening and pitched coping covered with three rows of tiles and ridge tiles. The eaves and springers are marked with horizontal tile courses. The iron gates shown on the original drawings have been replaced with a later 20th or early 21st-century example. The adjacent brick walls are excluded from the listing.