Description

ARTHUR ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B15
No 3
SP 0584 NE 49/5
II GV
2.
Corner site with Ampton Road. Circa 1853 Italianate 2 storey stucco villa
with set back service wing to left screened by yard wall incorporating coach
house at far end. The main front of 3 bays with plinth; plat band; moulded
panelled frieze and flat boxed eaves to hipped slate roof. Three light later
C19 segmental corniced dormer to centre front and flanking corniced chimney
stacks linked by dormers to sides. Windows have eared architrave surrounds
with consoles to sills, pulvinated friezes and moulded cornices, with consoles
on ground floor where the cornices are linked by the plat band. Segmental
pediment to central first floor window. Large central porch of Corinthian
columns with pilasters to wall, revealed 4 panel door with semi-circular fanlight.
Single storey projection to right of front with pilasters forms side of canted
bay to return falling Ampton Road which is otherwise, identical in its fenestration
to the front. To the left of front the screen wall partially concealing the
service wing is pierced by a segmental archway giving into the coach house the
roof of which appears behind the parapet.

Listing NGR: SP0569184963

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514306

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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