Description

HARBORNE ROAD
1.
5104
(south side)
Edgbaston B15
Nos 68 and 6dA
SP 0485 NE 38/22
II GV
2.
Corner site. A small C184O 3 bay stucco villa enlarged C1855-60, the new
addition to corner becoming the main house with the original (No 68A) as the
service wing. The original part has a symmetrical elevation with plat band
and central doorway with fanlight. Hipped slate roof. Revealed glazing bar
sashes. The 1855-60 Italianate addition is taller, also stucco faced with
plinth, rusticated quoins, applied parapet over ground floor cornice; console
brackets to eaves of hipped slate roof. Elevation to Harborne Road
asymmetrical with broad external chimney stack with bracket corniced shaft to
right hand; off centre pilastered porch with pilastered archivolt arched window
above; low set fan of similar windows to left. The south west return has 2
similar windows to left hand above pilastered tripartite rectangular bay
window with pent roof. South east garden front has a triple group of archivolt
arched windows, eared architrage sash windows and a big window with bracketed
cornice. The original house on this front has glazing bar sashes and a good
geometrical trellis verandah.

Listing NGR: SP0491385702

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26685238

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)