Windsor Terrace Hagley Road

[DavidGrain]

Was very surprised to find these shops arenstill there. Even some remains of the entrance with two pillars can still be seen. The present day Rose Supermarket is at 159 Hagley Road.

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Those gate posts were an entry (probably a rear entry) to Windsor Terrace, a gated terrace of Regency(?) houses. The main pedestrian entry was off photo to the right. I don't know if the houses are still there. I have gone back on Street View to Sept 2008 but there is a bus shelter in the way so it is difficult to tell.

 

[Stokkie]

Those gate posts were an entry (probably a rear entry) to Windsor Terrace, a gated terrace of Regency(?) houses. The main pedestrian entry was off photo to the right. I don't know if the houses are still there. I have gone back on Street View to Sept 2008 but there is a bus shelter in the way so it is difficult to tell.

Windsor Terrace remains too which has some grand houses. Time moves slowly in some parts of Calthorpe Estate.

 

[Vivienne14]

Windsor Terrace remains too which has some grand houses. Time moves slowly in some parts of Calthorpe Estate.

Yes Stokkie, theyre still there. You can see the row from Plough and Harrow Road.

 

[Stokkie]

Yes Stokkie, theyre still there. You can see the row from Plough and Harrow Road.

Thanks Viv,
A reminder that Birmingham still has some stylish period houses. I'm impressed that the upper stories of the Victorian houses still retain lots of original features in your Hagley Road picture.
Derek

 

[Vivienne14]

They're Grade 2 listed premises Stokkie ! Here's the Historic England entry :

"HAGLEY ROAD 1. 5104 (north side) Edgbaston B16 No 157 and Windsor Terrace [Nos 2 to 6 (Consec)] SP 0488 SE 36/5 II GV 2. C1840. Three pairs of semi-detached houses forming an attractive secluded group at right angles to Hagley Road and approached down a pathway. Stuccoed; slate roof. Each house 2 storeys; 3 bays. Ground floor with central round arched entrance up steps and 2 windows in 4 centred arched shallow recesses. Moulded string course at first floor sill level. First floor with central blank window and 2 windows. All windows sashes, mostly still with glazing bars. The pairs of houses connected to each other by a brick wall with central 4 centred shallow recess beneath gable and 2 side entrances. The entrance to No 157 on Hagley Road where there are, left and right of the composition, gate piers, that on the right the entrance to the pathway. Stucco with banded rustication, cornice and flat top. The pathway wall original for approximately the first 20 ft red brick with stucco coping".

WINDSOR TERRACE, Non Civil Parish - 1343059 | Historic England

List entry 1343059. Grade II Listed Building: Windsor Terrace. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

Listing NGR: SP0482486027