4, Church Road B15

CHURCH ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 No 4 SF 0585 SW 44/1 II GV 2. Part of the Birmingham School for the Deaf. Circa 1815 one of the earliest Calthorpe Estate villas added to circa 1860. Stucco; slate roof. Two storeys; 3 bays. Rusticated ground floor with 2 window in ball shallow round-arched recesses and a central porch with coupled Roman Doric columns, triglyph frieze and modillion cornice. First floor windows plain sashes (the centre one altered) sitting on a moulded stringcourse. Glazing bars throughout. Moulded eaves cornice and low parapet. To the left, a 2-storeyed full-height service wing of circa 1860 with irregular fenestration, the same stringcourse and overhanging eaves. To the right, a single-storey link to the 2-storeyed former coach house. Tripartite window in place of the entrance, moulded stringcourse (partly gone) and Venetian 1st floor window in broken pediment. Rear of main house with two 2-storeyed bow windows on a high basement with continuous cast-iron verandah of slim shafts with scroll brackets supporting openwork girders and ogee roof. Modern additions not included in the listing.

Listing NGR: SP0541885409