20, Charlotte Road B3

CHARLOTTE ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B3 No 20 SP 0685 SW 46/9 II GV 2. A substantial circa 1850-55 villa with coach house/stable court, on corner site with Pakenham Road, terraced garden front overlooking long gardens along Charlotte Road. Two storeys red brick with painted stone dressings. Virtually square plan with 3 bay elevations. Plinth, 1st floor sill band; string course below stucco frieze with console brackets to cornice, brick parapet with coping carried round 3 principal elevations. Shallow centre break to each front. The entrance and Pakenham Road fronts have plain painted stone surrounds to window, the heads flanked by anthemion patterned consoles supporting cornices on ground floor and with pediments over on 1st floor, the centre one in each case segmental. Ionic column porch with dentil cornice and blocking course, the doorway set in round headed architrave case, panelled soffit over fanlight. On Pakenham Road the central 1st floor window has a blind balustrade rising from the cornice of the ground floor window. The garden front has similar details but with 2 canted pent roof bay windows on ground floor flanking round healed garden door in architrave surround. Lower 3 bay service wing extends to south with screen wall link. Three bay elevations to stable court with central round arch window; coach house at right angle. Screen walls swept down to corniced gate piers at yard entrance.

Listing NGR: SP0622185417