Description

WALSALL MB VICTORIA TERRACE
SP 09 NW
7/104 Nos 7 and 8
24.05.71
GV II

Mirrored pair of houses. Early 1850s. Built by Henry Farrington. Brick
with painted stone and stucco dressings and hipped slate roof with over-
hanging bracketed eaves. Two storeys. Chamfered quoins on ground floor.
Each house is of three bays, with an extra bay between houses which has a
tunnel entrance on the ground floor with elliptical brick arch. On the
ground floor are timber canted bay windows. The first floor windows have
architraves, sill bands and cornices on console brackets. No 7 has 8-pane
sashes. The windows of No 8 have lost their glazing bars. The doors, in
the middle bay of each house, have surrounds with round heads under Ionic
porches with pilaster responds. The capitals of the porch to No 7 have lost
their details. Chimneys between houses (one on each side of tunnel) and on
end walls. Originally known as Hatherton Lake Villas. Included as part of
a planned development. (VCH, Staffordshire, Vol 7, p 152).

Listing NGR: SP0204099282

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26343652

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