Description

GEORGE ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B15
Nos 36 and 37
SP 0585 NE 40/38
II GV
2.
C1830 originally identical pair of previously detached red brick classical
villas with flanking coach houses. Two storey 3 bay symmetrical fronts with
shallow plinths. No 35 retains stucco frieze and moulded cornice with short
sections of parapet flanking broad pediment. No 36 retains frieze but no
pediment, rebuilt brick parapet with coping. Gable end slate roofs with flanking
brick chimneys with stucco cornices. Tall proportions to windows; revealed
glazing bar sashes with stucco courses on consoles, block pediments over those
on ground floor and block stucco sills. Each has central doorway; engaged
Tuscan columns, entablature with pediment blocking course. Panelled door
in panelled revealed with rectangular fanlight, that of No 36 retaining original
glazing pattern. No 36 has screen wall coach house to right with upswept
parapet and coping. No 37 has lean to 2 storey coach house to left with 4
canted arch doorway, the doors made of diagonal tongue and groove.

Listing NGR: SP0588485778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26506213

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)