27 And 28, Frederick Road B15

FREDERICK ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 Nos 27 and 28 SP 0585 NE 40/12 II GV 2. C1820-30, early pair of semi-detached Calthorpe Estate Villas. 2 storeys stucco faced. Each of 3 bays with central doorway and flanking former coach houses. Some later alterations to No 28. Plinth and first floor sill course carried across the block. Hipped slate roof with shallow flat eaves, central stucco chimney stack. Revealed glazing bar sashes intact to No 27, plate glass to No 28. The ground floor windows are set in shallow camber arched panels carried down to plinth, one in No 28 replaced by C1870 rectangular bay window with scallop slated pent roof. Round headed doorways with slender fluted Tuscan columns in antis supporting entablature below fanlight of inverted fan pattern, moulded arches. No 27 has slightly recessed screen wall with side entrance connecting the former coach house which is faced with a blind segmental arched panel. No 28 has similar screen wall and coach house doors heightened by one storey as substantial wing C1900 with oriel window above archway.

Listing NGR: SP0567685651