Description

LEE CRESCENT 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 Nos 41 and 42 BP 0685 NW 41/7 II GV

2. Circa 183O-55. Two storey pair of stucco faced housed, part of a Regency-style crescent formed by Nos 41 to 49(consec). Each has 3 bay front symmetrical in itself. Thin quoin pilasters; plinth; shallow rustication to ground floor struck to window and door arches; first floor sill bond. Shallow moulded eaves band to gable end slate roof with stucco chimney stacks on party walls. Ground floor windows set in stucco panels with segmental arches. First floor in similar panels; glazing bars intact to sashes. Each house has central arched entrance recess approached by short flight of steps containing inner moulded arch on flattened Tuscan columns with delicate fluting, door of 5 fielded and flush panels in panelled reveals and soffit, looped radial glazing to fanlight. To the extreme left and right of the paired fronts are narrow round arched tunnel passage entrances.

Listing NGR: SP0626685673

External Links

• Wikidata Q26579602

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)