60, Calthorpe Road B15

60 Calthorpe Road is a detached town house built around 1800, located at a prominent corner site at the junction of Harborne and Calthorpe Roads in Five Ways. The house has a rectangular plan and features two storeys constructed of finely pointed mellow red brick with restrained stucco dressings and neo-classical details. Originally, it included single-storey wings that housed a coach house.

The front of the house is well-proportioned and symmetrical, consisting of three bays. It has a stucco capping on the plinth that also serves as a ground floor sill course, along with a thin first floor sill band. A thin stucco string acts as a bed mould for the brick frieze, which is interrupted at the centre of the outer first floor windows by acanthus leaf consoles that support a broad pediment. This pediment is advanced from a sharply profiled stucco cornice and blocking course, with the tympanum featuring a stucco-framed oeuil-de-boeuf.

The low slate roof has coped gable ends topped with corniced brick chimneys. The ground floor windows are set in camber-headed reveals that rise from the plinth and have glazing bar sashes framed by flattened slender columns with entablatures. The outer first floor windows are simply revealed glazing bar sashes with panelled stucco heads, flanked by slender console brackets supporting thin cornices. The central window is designed in a simplified Venetian style, set in a camber-arched reveal similar to the ground floor, featuring a 3x4 pane sash with 1x4 pane narrow sidelights, pilaster lining to the reveals, and slender columns dividing the entablature with a thin course beneath the arch.

A blind balconette is situated below the sill, rising from the roof of the porch, which is supported by slender Doric columns. The entablature of the porch features triglyphs that curve out and back to the pilasters against the wall. The entrance consists of a tripartite panelled pilaster doorway with sidelights, echoing the design of the window above. No 60 is one of the few remaining examples of late 18th century to early 19th century polite domestic architecture in central Birmingham.