Description

LEE CRESCENT 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 Nos 37 to 40 (consec) SP 0685 NW 41/5 31.12.81 II GV 2. Circa 1830. Two palm of 3 storey, red brick, tunnel back houses, part of an irregular terrace Nos 31 to 40. Nos 37-38 are stepped slightly higher on hill. Particularly good examples of the tunnel back type, line used to create the impression of substantial 3 bay symmetrical elevations, One window only to each floor to left and right of entrances, revealed glazing bar sashes (squat, 2 x 4 panes top floor), stucco sills and stucco heeds on Tuscan capital stops, with cornices on ground and first floors. Shallow moulded eaves cornices and low pitch gable end slate roofs with brick chimney stacks and ornamental pots. Each pair has a single central passage entrance treated as if it were main doorway, set in antis under semi-circular rubbed brick gauged arch. That of Nos 37-38 has door of 6 moulded panels in panelled reveal framed by coupled very slender wooden Tuscan columns with reeded string below frieze and shallow projecting cornice, the lunette fanlight above marginal glazed with geometric pattern; that of Nos 39-40 is variant of the same design with delicately fluted, flattened columns, the lunette fanlight above cornice having in this case a swagged radial glazing pattern. The actual house doors face each other half way down the tunnel passage, linked by a semi-circular cross vault with panelled soffit. The doorway details repeat those of passage entrances with same coupled columns etc, blind fanlights. A well preserved and important example of tunnel back housing once so common in the city.

Listing NGR: SP0625385689

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