9-12, DOWLES ROAD

SO 7875 SW BEWDLEY CP DOWLES ROAD (west side) Venus Bank

12/21 Nos 9 to 12 (consec)

2.10.75

GV II

Four houses. Mid-C18 with mid-C19 and some late C20 alterations. Brick with hipped tile and felt roof. L-plan, limb extending to south includes no 10, 11 and 12; no 9 in limb extending to west. East front: two storeys with attic lit by five gabled dormers, dog tooth brick cornice; 3 + 3 + 1 windows (nos 12, 11 and 10), timber cross-windows under segmental heads, the central window of each group of three is a single-light casement under segmental head; ground floor: 2 + 2 + 1 windows, entrances placed centrally in each part, no 12 has a lean-to tiled canopy, wooden architrave with 2- pane overlight and a C20 ledged and boarded door; no 11 has wooden architrave and had a triangular canopy on wooden brackets, no 10 has entrance to right- hand corner with wooden architrave and had a triangular canopy; entrance to no 9 in right return front. Nos 9 - 11 unoccupied at time of survey (June 1985), with all openings boarded up.

Listing NGR: SO7845475411