110 AND 112, OXFORD ROAD B13

Nos 110 and 112 on Oxford Road in Moseley are a pair of semi-detached houses built around 1906-1907, showcasing distinctive Birmingham Arts and Crafts architectural details. Although they share an identical plan and construction, there are subtle variations in their design.

The houses feature parallel garage approaches that lead to a linked, gabled garage block at the front of the garden. They are two storeys high with attics, constructed from painted brick adorned with decorative tile work and brick diapering. Both houses have broad gabled fronts with cross roofs at the back, and the chimney stacks and main roofs are set back from the body of the houses. The roofs are covered with Westmoreland slates and have overhanging eaves.

Each house has a polygonal bowed casement bay window on the ground floor, topped with a corniced pent slate roof, and a four-light casement window beneath the gable on the first floor. The gable of No 110 extends down over a right-hand squared timber verandah porch, while No 112's gable stops between the floors, with the porch entrance integrated into the wall but remaining open on the side as a verandah. No 112 features slate hanging in the gable and arrow-pattern tile work, whereas No 110 has a simple brick diaper and a horizontal tilework band.

The cross roof behind the gable of No 112 has a weatherboarded wall at the front with a small attic light, accompanied by an external gable end chimney. The equivalent cross roof on No 110 is shorter but has the same external stack. The dormer on No 110 is situated in the main roof behind the cat-slide of the front gable, while No 112 includes a small rectangular weather-boarded bay window below the main roof above the porch.

The yard elevations facing the garage drives are identical, featuring camber-arched transomed wood casements and similar stair lights between the floors. Wooden gates at the front span the parallel drives between the houses, adorned with elegant Arts and Crafts wrought iron overthrows that display scrolled plaques with the street numbers. The garage block prominently projects with a broad gable at the center of the garden front composition.