5 And 6, George Road B15

GEORGE ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 Nos 5 and 6 SP 0585 NE 40/26 II GV 2. C1800-10. Two storey symmetrical pair of corniced stucco houses. Seven bays, the central one containing tunnel passage. Originally the centre piece of a terrace (No 4 demolished). Hipped slate roof with moulded eaves overall. (Brick chimney stacks). The centre 3 bays are slightly advanced with a moulded triangular pediment. No 5 retains all original features with revealed glazing bar sashes, the window next to the centre set in arched panel, central first floor window blind. Round headed doorway, panelled reveals, soffit and door, radial glazed fanlight, all contained in doorcase of engaged slender Tuscan columns, roundels to sections of entablature and open pediment. No 6 retains identical doorway but first floor windows have lost glazing bars and the ground floor has pilastered canted bay windows of C1860 with scallop slate pent roofs and fretted bracketted courses. The central passage doorway has blind lunette.

Listing NGR: SP0588885896