20, Highfield Road B15

HIGHFIELD ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 No 20 SP 0585 NW 39/24 II 2. Circa 1840 large detached stucco villa. Two storeys on a square 3 bay plan with entrance front to Westbourne Crescent; rear way of circa 1855 along Highfield Road. Main elevations have plinth, quoin pilasters, first floor plat band. Flat eaves broken forward over pilasters. Hipped slate roof with stucco chimney stacks. First floor windows in architrave, surrounds with cornices on consoles. The ground floor of entrance front has former doorway (now window) with coupled pilasters, flanked by canted bays, possibly of circa 1855, with dentil cornices and faceted keystones. Present arched entrance in single storey annexe has reset panelled reveals. South- west and north-west garden fronts have French windows in architrave surrounds on ground floor, screened by fined verandahs of cast iron, 8 bays and 5 bays with leaded tent roofs on scrollwork, coupled standards with openwork entablatures. Circa 1855 wing to Highfield Road has 4 windows in architrave surrounds and billiard room over former coach house.

Listing NGR: SP0532985602