64-70, Tettenhall Road

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW TETTENHALL ROAD 895-1/5/337 (North side) 11/04/90 Nos.64-70 (Even)

GV II

Terrace of four houses, c1850. Red brick with stone and stucco dressings; concrete tile roof; brick stacks. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys and basement; 8-window range. Symmetrical composition with slightly projecting quoined bays in a rhythm of A:B:A:BB:A:B:A. Stucco basement; ground-floor frieze and cornice; first-floor plinth and top frieze, cornice and blocking course. Bays 1, 3, 6 and 8 break forward with quoins. Basement has segmental-headed windows with tripartite sashes; ground-floor windows have tripartite sashes with consoles to mullions set in plain architraves with bracketed cills; corniced first-floor 4-pane sashes have moulded, keyed, lugged and eared architraves; paired round-arched lights with architraves and keystones to second floor. Bays 2, 4, 5 and 7 have entrances recessed behind opening with antae; paired doors with overlights; first floor has architraved window with frieze, cornice and sash; second floor has round-headed light with architrave and keystone. Low parapet, some ornate railings surviving, to front of basement area. Rear has projecting bays on arches with basement, set back with small-paned casements and entrances; they were used as separate dwellings; some 12-pane sashes to first and second floors. INTERIOR retains some details such as cornices, shutters and some staircase balustrading. A good example of a mid C19 terrace; the basement dwellings are an unusual feature.

Listing NGR: SO9019898977