Solace Spa - 60 Calthorpe Road - Five Ways : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Solace Spa - 60 Calthorpe Road - Five Ways / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is now Solace Spa at 60 Calthorpe Road in Five Ways. Solace Spa is an approved beauty day spa in a house dating from approx 1800.It stands a the corner of Calthorpe Road and Harborne Road on what seems like an island.It is a Grade II listed building.Circa 1800, a good detached town house of rectangular plan, on importantcorner site straddling apex of Harborne and Calthorpe Roads at Five Ways.Two storeys, finely pointed mellow red brick with restrained stucco dressingsand neo-classical details. Formerly had single storey wings including coachhouse. Well proportioned 3 bay symmetrical front. Stucco capping to plinthas ground floor sill course. Thin first floor sill band. Thin stucco stringas bed mould to brick frieze, broken in line with centre of outer first floorwindows, by acanthus leaf consoles which support a broad pediment advancedfrom sharply profiled stucco cornice and blocking course. The tympanum containsa stucco framed oeuil-de-boeuf. Low slate roof with coped gable ends surmountedby corniced brick chimneys. Ground floor windows, contained in camber headedreveals rising from plinth, have glazing bar sashes in flattened slendercolumn frames with entablatures. Outer windows on first floor plainly revealedglazing bar sashes with panelled stucco heads flanked by slender consolebrackets to thin cornices. The centre window is of simplified Venetian pattern,contained in camber arched revealed, similar to ground floor but 3x4 panesash with 1x4 pane narrow side lights, pilaster lining to reveals and slendercolumns divising entablature with thin course under arch. Blind balconettebelow sill rising from roof of porch which has slender Doric columns, theentablature with triglyphs curved out and back to pilasters against wall.Tripartite panelled pilaster doorway with side lights, echoing the windowabove. No 60 is now one of the very few surviving examples of late C18/earlyC19 polite domestic architecture in central Birmingham.60 Calthorpe Road - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2009-12-29 11:52:16 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/58) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.8 |