Lansdowne Terrace

Lansdowne Terrace, located on Soho Road in Handsworth, was built around 1840. This building features stucco exterior and a slate roof, standing two storeys high with nine bays, including vermiculated quoins on the left and right. Each house consists of two bays. The ground floor showcases banded rustication, with windows and doors alternating, plus an additional window on the right. The doors are accessed by steps and have rectangular fanlights, flanked by pilasters leading to an entablature adorned with scroll work in the frieze and a bracketed cornice. The tripartite windows are set within decorative surrounds featuring foliage in the friezes of the bracketed cornices. The first-floor windows are also tripartite, positioned above the ground floor windows, and are narrower with marginal glazing bars above the doors. They rest on an elaborate sill band and are framed by uniquely designed moulded surrounds with decorative aprons that extend down to the cornices of the windows below. The eaves cornice is dentilled and bracketed. Notably, No 15 has a ground floor window that has been converted into a bay window in a matching style. On the right-hand return, there is the entrance to No 1 Piers Road.