No. 5, ELMDON ROAD
5, ELMDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261866
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- No. 5, ELMDON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 5, ELMDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261866
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- No. 5, ELMDON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, ELMDON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 5, ELMDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Solihull (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bickenhill and Marston Green
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 17213 85415
Details
SP 18 NE; 7/10016
SOLIHULL,
ELMDON ROAD (south-west side), Marston Green,
Number 5 (odd)
II
House. Circa C16; remodelled in circa early C17 and C19; Timber-framed, roughcast. Clay
plain tile roof with gabled ends. Roughcast gable-end stacks. PLAN: 2-room plan of two
framed bays; the larger right-hand bay probably originally an open hall, the left bay of two
storeys and with framed partition between the two bays; originally a third bay on the
right-hand end. In circa early C17 a floor was inserted into the hall creating a chamber above;
the hall stack might have been built before the floor was inserted. Divided into two cottages in
C19, when a brick wall was built across the left side of the hall; outshut on the right [N.W.]
end is a C19 addition.
EXTERIOR: 1-storey and attic. Almost symmetrical 2-window north-east front. Small
C19 2-light casements with leaded panes, the attic casements in small gabled
dormers. Plank doors to left and right of-centre with very small 2-light window between.
Single storey outshut on the right-hand end built around gable-end stack. At the rear there are
small casements, central doorway and large C20 conservatory to left.
INTERIOR: Right-hand
room [hall] has chamfered axial beam with hollow step stops at one end, deeply-chamfered
joists with similar stops and large fireplace with roughly chamfered timber lintel; doorway to
outshut on right with cranked head. Smaller left-hand room has roughly chamfered axial beam
and large joists; doorway in timber-framed partition with cambered head. Timber frame
exposed in attic chambers, including wall plates and wall framing with curved tension-braces,
jowled posts, curved braces to slightly cambered tie beams, queen posts and wind braces; the
apex of the roof is ceiled and inaccessible.
Listing NGR: SP1721385415
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436442
- 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.
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