Description

GEORGE ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B15
No 22
SP 0585 NE 40/28
II
2.
C1850. Large detached Grecian stucco villa. Two storeys with long side parallel
with road and shorter 3 bay entrance front to south. Set back in large gardens
with carriage sweep round to south front. The 3 bay entrance front has slightly
recessed centre with shorter pediment on finely moulded console brackets.
Low hipped slate roof with flat eaves, corniced chimneys. Plinth, first floor
sill course and eaves frieze and cornice. Revealed glazing bar sash windows,
those on ground floor carried down to plinth, moulded blind boxes on console
brackets; those on first floor have panelled sills. Porch in antis with fluted
Ionic columns bearing heavy entablature with acroteria, the blocking course
supporting the first floor window sill. Panelled door with rectangular fanlight,
patterned glazing bay. Two bay flanks, extended on east side by 5 bays including
canted bay topped by balustraded balcony and 2 first floor windows in architrave
surrounds.

Listing NGR: SP0577185656

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26339070

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)