Description

CALTHORPE ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B15
No 25
SP 0585 NE 40/4 21.1.70
II GV
2.
A good early Calthorpe estate villa of circa 1820-30. Detached, 2 storeys,
3 bays, stucco faced with left hand entrance bay. Plinth, first floor sill
band, flat eaves with broad shallow modillion brackets and hipped slate roof
with stucco chimney stacks. Ground floor windows and doorway set in round
arched panels with inset sills and aprons down to plinth, rounded heads with
glazing bars radiating to them. Plain glazing bar sashes to first floor.
The doorway, with panelled reveals and soffit,has the Birmingham type of
inset doorcase: Tuscan columns carrying entablature with modillion cornice,
radial glazed fanlight. Lower 2 storey wing to left with moulded cornice
and blocking course. Screen wall with arched side entrance to right links
the 2 storey coach house with segmental arched doors, projecting eaves.
Garden front altered circa 1860-70 with canted bays. Italianate garden door
between them.

Listing NGR: SP0554685754

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26339406

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