I've done a bit of delving in the Street Directories in the old Kelly's directories to which I have access here. The properties were numbered consecutively on the northe-east side of the road, starting at the corner with Broad Street.
1 Ladywood Road: Five Ways Inn, Licensee William Ellis in 1899, Edward Oliver in 1900 and 1904, Walter Henry Bowkett 1908 and 1913
2-6 Ladywood Road - <no mention>
7 Ladywood Road: Edward Price, veterinary surgeon in 1899 and 1900 <presumably renumbered 7A by 1904>
"Five Ways Mews": Maginn Bros, cab proprietors in 1899, Bernard Maginn cab proprietor in 1900,
7A Ladywood Road: Henry Durnell, veterinary surgeon in 1904
7A Ladywood Road: Arthur Bellingham, coach maker in 1904
7A Ladywood Road: H Grove & Co., horse breakers in 1904 (I guess this was a trainer for fractious animals)
Unnumbered: (presumably old Five Ways Mews and perhaps 7 & 7A, but no mention in 1908) Provincial Motor Cab Co in 1913, Henry G Hayes, Manager.
8 Ladywood Road: Albert Buck, carpenter in 1899 & 1900 <no mention in 1904, 1908, 1913>
9 Ladywood Road: George Goulding, slater
It does not tell us much - obviously those were quite changing times for small businesses too.
Peter