Description

HANDSWORTH WOOD ROAD
1.
5104
Handsworth B20
No 133
SP 09 SW 2/7
II GV
2.
Includes No 2 Somerset Road. 1905, by Joseph Crouch and Edmund Butler. In an Arts
and Crafts style. On the corner and designed as one with No 2 Somerset Road, the
corner itself marked by a polygonal turret flanked by single gabled bays. Brick
plinth; pebbledashed with stone dressings; tiled roof with bracketed eaves and
brick chimney stacks. Two storeys plus attic. Ground floor with a 5 light
window beneath a tiled lean-to with bracketed eaves cornice and the door
with a 3-light mullioned window to its left. First floor with a Venetian
type window and, in the gable, a 3 light window. All windows with leaded
lights, some of them stained glass. The turret has cross windows with blank
tympana and blocking stones. On the return, the entrance to No 2 Somerset
Road in a stone surround that incorporates a window either side of the door,
a canted bay window and 1-, 2- and 3-light windows.

Listing NGR: SP0489791148

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26341044

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)