695-697 Warwick Road, Solihull

A terrace of office and shop premises which appear to have been originally built in the later C18 as housing and later converted to shops, with accommodation above.

MATERIALS & PLAN: red, hand-made brick, laid in Flemish bond with a plain tiled roof. The buildings are of two storeys with attic.

EXTERIOR: there is a cogged band at eaves level of the road front. No. 695 has a raised band between the floors. Both properties have windows to first-floor level with cambered heads. At ground floor level No. 695 has a glazed, C20 door to left, with a projecting hood supported on shaped wooden brackets. To right of this is an early-C19 bowed shop window. No. 697 has a projecting, square shop window which has a hood with moulded front edge. This continues over the doorway, which has a glazed door and moulded frame, both of which appear to be C20 renewals. Shaped brackets support the hood. To the roof are four, gabled casement dormers. The rear of both properties has been extended after 1976 in a Neo-Georgian style with sash windows that have cambered heads. The right flank abuts No. 699 Warwick Road (Grade II).