13, CHURCH ROAD B15

CHURCH ROAD l. 5104 Edgbaston B15 No 13 SF 0584 NE 49/8 II 2. Circa 1850-55 a large Italianate villa set back in large garden and approached by carriage sweep drive. The villa is stucco faced, of 2 tall storeys to front and 3 to sides. Three bay symmetrical front with screen wall linking coach house to north-west side. Plinth; chamfered rusticated quoins; applied parapet to lst floor, the "coping" as sill course. Floral band as bed to frieze with doubled acanthus console brackets supporting deep flat boxed eaves. Hipped slate roof with corniced chimneys and 2 camber headed slate cheek dormers. Tripartite ground floor windows in eared architraves with plaster dividers. panelled friezes with consoles and large scrolled consoles flanking heads and supporting the cornices. Panels of blind balustrading rise from the latter to the sills of the lst floor windows. These have revealed pilasters to rounded heads and pannelled spandrels flanked by large consoles supporting segmental pediments. Large porch of paired, fluted Corinthian columns, entablature surmounted by balustrade. Attic storey windows set between consoles on side elevations and large stair light with archivolt arch on consoles to north-west. Three bay south-east side has similar fenestration to front. The stable block linked by screen wall has a hipped slate roof. Segmental entrance, radiating glazing bars to arched windows, those on lst floor cutting into eaves.

Listing NGR: SP0551784908