Description

SP 0481 SW BIRMINGHAM OAK TREE LANE
Bournville
997/55/10212
Number 172

II

House. 1907; by W. Alexander Harvey, for G.H. Archibald, on the Bournvlle Estate. English bond red brick, some tile-hanging and a timber-framed porch. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends, brick dentil eaves cornice and verges. Brick axial and gable-end stacks with brick corbelling and arched panels. PLAN: L-shaped on plan; with porch and stairhall in SE angle, two principal rooms in W wing with verandah on W garden front, and service rooms in E wing.
Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical elevations. In the SE angle the roof is carried down over a timber-framed porch with a small gabled dormer above and various small casements to left and right; the gable ends of the wings have a canted oriel to the right [E] and a canted 2-storey bay window to the left [S], both tile-hung. On the west garden front the roof is continued down to a verandah on timber posts supporting a beam and exposed joists; under the verandah there are two large canted bay windows either side of the lateral stack which rises through the verandah roof, and to the left two gabled dormers. North side has small single-storey outhouse on left with hipped roof and later flat roof single-storey addition on right. Wooden mullion windows with iron casements with ornate wrought-iron catches and leaded panes. INTERIOR: Drawing room has modillion cornice, inglenook with settles and bolection moulded chimneypiece. Panelled dining room with bolection chimneypiece. Hall has panelled doors, top panels with leaded panes, chimneypiece and open-well staircase with closed string, turned balusters and moulded handrail ramped up to square newels.

Listing NGR: SP0418081402

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284850

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