Description

PAKENHAM ROAD
1.
5104 Edgbaston B15
Nos 5 and 6
SP 0685 SW 46/28 2.4.81
II GV
2.
Circa 1850-55; identical villas linked by screen wall coach houses. Each
of 2 storeys and attic, red brick with Italianate stucco dressings. 3 bays
symmetrical front. Plinth; rusticated quoins; first floor sill band with
acanthus enriched Vitruvian scroll, bed mould to frieze and dentil band below
flat eaves of gable end slate roof with flanking corniced chimney stacks;
2 round headed dormers. First floor has tripartite windows flanking single
central window, sashes revealed in thin pilaster strip frames with guttae
consoles to dentil cornices. Ground floor has shallow canted bays with Corinthian
pilasters supporting entablatures. Broad central porch of Corinthian columns
and entablature with dentilled and bracketed cornice (porch removed at No 6).
Four panel door in panelled reveals with geometric glazed rectangular fanlight.
The linked coach house screen walls are pierced by segmental arched coach
doors.

Listing NGR: SP0612385339

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26340637

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)