165-177, Bristol Road B5

This is a circa 1830 row of fourth-rate, common passage artisan dwellings located on Bristol Road in Edgbaston. The row consists of numbers 165 to 177, with number 165 having a single bay elevation and the others having three. The buildings are constructed of red brick with low-pitched, hipped slate roofs featuring flat eaves on bed mould. A painted stone plinth runs along the base. The entrance bays of numbers 165 to 173 are blind on the first floor and project forward by one brick, incorporating similar breaks in line with the chimney stacks. The remaining window bays contain one glazing bar sash window to each floor, with painted stone sills and thin, moulded stone lintels having small keystones, which are properly cambered to numbers 171 and 173. The doors are six-panel doors in panelled reveals. Doorways at numbers 167 and 169 have reeded panel architraves with corner blocks. Numbers 169 and 165 have the later addition of gabled, bracketed hoods. Numbers 171 and 173 feature architraved doorways with blind, radially glazed fanlights. Numbers 175 and 177 present a flat three-bay front with sash windows of the same type, but without glazing bars. There is a six-panel door in a panelled reveal, with a blocked fanlight, and a delicate geometric trellis porch. This building demonstrates group value by representing a typical example of its type.