60, Calthorpe Road B15

CALTHORPE ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 No 60 SP 0585 NE 40/42 21.1.70 II 2. Circa 1800, a good detached town house of rectangular plan, on important corner site straddling apex of Harborne and Calthorpe Roads at Five Ways. Two storeys, finely pointed mellow red brick with restrained stucco dressings and neo-classical details. Formerly had single storey wings including coach house. Well proportioned 3 bay symmetrical front. Stucco capping to plinth as ground floor sill course. Thin first floor sill band. Thin stucco string as bed mould to brick frieze, broken in line with centre of outer first floor windows, by acanthus leaf consoles which support a broad pediment advanced from sharply profiled stucco cornice and blocking course. The tympanum contains a stucco framed oeuil-de-boeuf. Low slate roof with coped gable ends surmounted by corniced brick chimneys. Ground floor windows, contained in camber headed reveals rising from plinth, have glazing bar sashes in flattened slender column frames with entablatures. Outer windows on first floor plainly revealed glazing bar sashes with panelled stucco heads flanked by slender console brackets to thin cornices. The centre window is of simplified Venetian pattern, contained in camber arched revealed, similar to ground floor but 3x4 pane sash with 1x4 pane narrow side lights, pilaster lining to reveals and slender columns divising entablature with thin course under arch. Blind balconette below sill rising from roof of porch which has slender Doric columns, the entablature with triglyphs curved out and back to pilasters against wall. Tripartite panelled pilaster doorway with side lights, echoing the window above. No 60 is now one of the very few surviving examples of late C18/early C19 polite domestic architecture in central Birmingham.

Listing NGR: SP0560485995