Description

AMPTON ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B15
No 10
SP 0585 SE 45/4
II GV
2.
Dated 1860, a detached Tudor-Gothic villa with coach house. Two storeys and
attic red brick with sandstone dressings. Two bay front, the right hand broader
bay breaking forward with bargeboarded finialed gable and similar but smaller
gable over first floor window in left hand bay, breaking through eaves. Steep
gable end slate roofs with bands of shaped slates and fleur de lys ridge tiles.
Chimney stacks with weathered stone caps and octagonal brick shafts. Flush
stone quoins and window dressings. Two or 3 light stone mullioned and transomed
windows with drip moulds on carved stops. Ground floor of right hand break
has canted stone dressed bay window with inscribed quatrefoil panelled parapet.
Ground floor left has tripartite window with taller centre light, the dripmould
carried up and over with motto scroll. Recessed side wing has 2 storey faced
canted porch with crenellated parapet; carved head stops to drip mould of
window above 4 centred arch doorway with panelled spandrels. The attached
coach house is designed in the same idiom with bargeboards and overhanging
eaves.

Listing NGR: SP0566985154

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26339511

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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