50 Wake Green Road

50 Wake Green Road, Birmingham, B13 9PF

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A suburban house, dated 1907, designed by George Edward Pepper in an Arts and Crafts style. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211119
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: 50 Wake Green Road
Statutory Address:: 50 Wake Green Road, Birmingham, B13 9PF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211119
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jan-2015
List Entry Name:: 50 Wake Green Road
Statutory Address 1:: 50 Wake Green Road, Birmingham, B13 9PF

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 50 Wake Green Road, Birmingham, B13 9PF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP0849682795

Summary

A suburban house, dated 1907, designed by George Edward Pepper in an Arts and Crafts style.

Reasons for Designation

No. 50, Wake Green Road, Birmingham, is listed at Grade II for the following, principal reasons: * Architectural quality: the house is a good example of the work of the noted architect George E Pepper built according to the arts and crafts aesthetic; * Intact survival: the house retains the chief elements of its external and internal appearance, including internal fittings, and a motor house.

History

A suburban house, dated 1907, designed by George Edward Pepper in an Arts and Crafts style.

Details

MATERIALS: stretcher bond red brick with stone dressings and a plain tiled roof

PLAN: two storeys with attached, single-storey garage block.

EXTERIOR: the entrance front has two bays. At left is a projecting, gabled bay with canted corners. This has a canted bay window to the ground floor of four lights above which is an oriel of three canted lights which is flanked by diamond patterns of stones set flush into the brickwork. There is a lancet to the gable, which has stone copings and kneelers. At right of this the entrance porch is flanked by two timber, Ionic columns which support a segmental porch that has prominent dentals. To the right of this is a small veranda and a canted bay window of four lights. The roof descends to the ground floor over this portion of the front and there is a gabled dormer window of three lights to the first floor with a dressed brick surround. Attached to the right is a pedestrian door with arched head and to the right again is the prominent garage which has a round arched entrance with double doors. To the ridge of the garage roof is a polygonal louvered ventilation turret with a domed lead roof and sceptre finial. The rear has a gabled bay with canted corners at left which has two first floor sash windows. At right of this there is a wide canted bay with French windows to the ground floor and above this a first-floor canted bay with flat head of seven lights.

INTERIOR: the drawing room has stained glass wreaths to the leaded windows of the canted bay. An inglenook fireplace has similar, smaller windows and a panelled oak surround with inlayed blond wood motifs of swags and ribbons. Another ground floor room also has an inglenook fireplace with panelling to the walls and a panelled plaster and wood ceiling. There is a fitted dresser to the kitchen with glazed doors to its upper body.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 217729
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.