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Shots near the Benmore Estate in Edgbaston.

This is the Optimax Laser Eye Surgery building on the corner of Bristol Road and Speedwell Road in Edgbaston.

The end on the Speedwell Road side looks like an old Victorian green house or something.

Is at 96 Bristol Road.

It is a Grade II listed building.

Circa 1855 substantial, 5 bay, 2 storey Calthorpe Estate villa. Stucco faced with hipped slate roof. Corniced stucco chimneys with arcaded panels. The chanelled ground floor has canted bay windows throughout, rising from moulded sills on ground and with Corinthian pilasters dividing the sash lights. Richly modelled Corinthian column porch. Ground floor entablature with dentil cornice broken forward over bays and porch, the blocking course acting as sill course to the first floor windows. There are round headed, in moulded reveals, with a roll moulded string at import level arched up over heads from angled acanthus leaf stops. Bed mould to main frieze of incised key pattern and moulded bed to the flat eaves. Stringcourses etc returned to side elevations. South side has approximately contemporary wooden conservatory arcaded lights, the dividers capped by consoles. Ridge lantern.

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Also known as The Corinthians.
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Source Optimax, Bristol Road, Edgbaston (The Corinthians)
Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location52° 27′ 45.42″ N, 1° 54′ 13.76″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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