EARLSDON
AREA OF LOCAL DISTINCTIVENESS

 

 

Zone 5 - Yellow, from 1910



 

Streets within this zone include:

Belvedere Road
Berkeley Road North
Broadway
Dalton Road
Earlsdon Avenue South (section of)
Huntingdon Road
Mayfield Road
Mickleton Road
Morningside
Spencer Avenue
Stanway Road
The Firs

Zone 5 Map

Zone Five consists of ten streets, Earlsdon Avenue South, Berkeley Road North, Mayfield Road, Belvedere Road, Stanway Road, Mickleton Road, Huntingdon Road, Broadway, Spencer Avenue and Dalton Road laid out by the Newcombe Brothers in 1909.  The Newcombe Estate includes a further fifteen streets which are not included in the area proposed for ALD status.  It was decided that the nine streets provided a typical example of the housing and street scenes developed by the Newcombe Brothers.

Spencer Park
(52) Spencer Recreation Park

 

Earlsdon Avenue South
Earlsdon Avenue South
(53) (54) Earlsdon Avenue South

Earlsdon Avenue South
(55) Earlsdon Avenue South

Spencer AvenueSpencer Avenue
(56) (57) Spencer Avenue
 


Broadway
Broadway
(58) (59) Broadway

Dalton Road
(60) Dalton Road

Dalton Road
Dalton Road
(61) (62) Dalton Road

Belvedere Road
(63) Belvedere Road

 

Descriptions of Photographs in Zone Five

Photograph (52)
The bowling pavilion, Spencer Recreation Park.

Photographs (53, 54 and 55)
These three large properties on Earlsdon Avenue South have complex facades using numerous facing materials.  All are roofed with plain clay tiles.  Other elements include mock Tudor, Dutch gables, hanging tiles, various shaped bay windows and red brickwork.  These buildings are locally listed.

Photograph (56)
Regular gables above double height bay windows.

Photograph (57)
The bargeboard to the gable has dentils at the verge.  The two storey bay window has tile hanging above prominent bays.

Photograph (58)
Various house forms in a tree lined avenue.

Photograph (59)
Bay windows on three levels which reduce in size at each floor.

Photographs (60, 61 and 62)
A terrace of properties built in 1897 unified by the facing materials and the regular spacing of similar two storey bay windows.  Special bricks and terracotta details decorate the gable verges and tops of bays.

Photograph (63)
Red clay roofing tiles, red bricks and unpainted stonework (giving an idea of what Earlsdon bay windows looked like before the fashion for painting stonework).  The gables have parapets with stone copings.  The end bay window wraps around the corner of the building.  Note the arched entrance canopy.

 

 
         

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