Description

FARQUHAR ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B15
No 79
(St Clears)
SP 08 SW 11/17
II
2.
1914, for J E By W H Bidlake. In an Arts and Crafts style. Purple brick
with red brick and a minimum use of yellow stone and tile-hanging; tiled roof.
Two storeys plus attic; 3 gabled bays, the outer 2 advanced. Colure and form
give the facade to the road a character quite different from that of the more
freely treated garden front. Ground floor with a 4-light transomed window,
a narrow 3-light window and the door within a simple moulded surround and a
3-light transomed window. First floor with a 3-light windows, 2 cross-windows
and a small 2-light window within an arcade, as it were, with polychromatic
brick tympana and another 3-light window. All the windows, except one, with
leaded lights, more elaborate in their leading in the centre bay. In the
central gable two 2-light casements with leaded lights between bands of tile work.
Inside, the staircase leads up to a groin-vaulted bedroom passage.

Listing NGR: SP0470684226

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505797

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