Description

WELLINGTON ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 No 63 SP 0684 NW 50/24 II GV 2. C1840-50 substantial 2 storey red brick villa with stucco dressings and Italianate details. Three bay symmetrical front but with a 3 storey projecting tower wing to south adjoining screen wall entrance from roadside to coach house and yard. Plinth, bed mould to eaves returned on to tower wing as second floor sill course. Hipped slate roofs with deep flat eaves, the main block with tall brick chimney stacks. The left hand ground floor has had a brick and stucco parapetted bay window inserted C1870, but otherwise fenestration remains unaltered; first floor windows in architrave surrounds with enriched scrolled aprons below sills. Right hand ground floor window has swept feet to architrave rising from plinth, bolection frieze, cornice and blocking course supporting apron of window above glazing bar sashes, ground floor right with very narrow side lights. Central doorway: architrave surround with enriched consoles supporting pediment; panelled reveals, soffit and door. The tower wing has former doorway, new window, with stucco capped brick pilasters and semi-circular rubbed brick arch. First and second floor windows linked volutes to feet of architrave and pulvinated frieze and cornice to first floor window acting as plinth to architrave of second floor window. Setback extension to wing behind. Screen wall to road has yard gates to stable coach house of red brick with hipped slate roof. Garden front has 2 storey canted bay windows with stucco dressings.

Listing NGR: SP0623284978

External Links

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