Description

GEORGE ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 Coach-house, Bothy and garden walls to No 22 SP 0585 NE 40/29 II GV 2. C1830-40. The coach-house - bothies - form a picturesque but symmetrical Tudor-Gothic composition in red brick with blue headers, situated at the head of a service lane at the rear of the garden and providing a backcloth to the lawns. Chapel-like bothy with central polygonal apse. Four centred stucco windows with crow-stepped gable over centre. Scalloped slate roofs. Higher crow-stepped gable to rear, the steps merging into battlements over round arched flanking gateways. Left hand one links coach house which has 4 centred entrance arch, the window over with dripmould, and finialed gable with ornate identical appearance to coach house but with 4 centred windows in place of entrance; dovecote in gable, same bargeboards. Extending north from the coach house side wall is an imposing "Tudor" garden wall with 9 bays of blind segmental arches on flat piers; the wall returns to rear of house.

Listing NGR: SP0573185642

External Links

• Wikidata Q26339073

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