8A Westbourne Road B15

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

WESTBOURNE ROAD 1.

5104 Edgbaston B15 No 8A SP 0585 NW 39/14 II 2.

Lodge to now demolished house. Originally Tudor of C1840 but remodelled in a High Victorian Gothic C1870. Diapered red and blue brick; patterned tile roof. Of the earlier period the two 4 centred arches at the angle and the 2 mullioned windows with traceried iron glazing bars on the side to the drive (now represented by St George's Close). Towards the road, a square projection of the later date carrying an apsidal tourelle with 5 lancet windows of red and blue brick banded with stone and a steep spire with iron finial.

Towards the drive, the later period is represented by a steep gable attached to the tourelle and projecting on brackets over the earlier work. In it a hipped rectangular oriel window on brackets.



Listing NGR: SP0514185514

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0558 IOE Records taken by John Davis; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Dr John Davis. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project