15, St Agnes Road B13

15 St Agnes Road is an early Arts and Crafts house built in 1904, designed by Anthony Rowse for his brother. It is a distinctive example of Birmingham architecture. The house is two storeys and an attic, with an asymmetrical elevation. It has a steep tiled gable end roof with tall, slightly tapered chimney stacks. The prominent gabled bay is two and a half storeys, with a two-storey staircase bay and porch in the same plane. The porch rises level with the first transom of the stair window, and features flat coping above, a miniature gable above the date plaque, and a shallow chamfered return to the wing with overhanging eaves. The porch has chequer stone and tilework and a plain stone coped parapet. The round arched doorway is relatively low, with flush ashlar rustication and a semi-circular corbelled stone hood. The round headed door has decorative fittings. The stair window is stone-framed and mullion-transomed, and a small lobby window, also stone-dressed, is set low beneath it on the ground floor; both have tile bands above the lintels. The left-hand gabled bay has a canted bay window with a rosette-studded valance. Leaded casements are set in shallow flush frames to the upper floors. The right-hand wing has a small leaded canted oriel to the first floor and a three-light mullion-transom window to the ground floor. All windows retain decorated wrought iron latches. The interior remains unaltered, with restrained mouldings and door furniture. It features tall, well-proportioned fireplaces: the drawing room has a panelled over-mantel and peacock green tiles, while the dining room has flanking high-set slender columns. A simple dog leg staircase is of stained oak, with octagonal, tapering capped newels decorated with small diamond marquetry. An unusually extensive internal ventilation system includes grilles in the hall and all main rooms.