1-7, CORPORATION STREET
1-7, CORPORATION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034396
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, CORPORATION STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1-7, CORPORATION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034396
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, CORPORATION STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-7, CORPORATION STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1-7, CORPORATION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 07031 86814
Details
The following building shall be included: CORPORATION STREET 1. 5104 SE 0786 (west side) 34/8 Nos 1-7 (odd) II GV 2. Commercial building, c.1880. Limestone ashlar with slate mansard roof. Free style composition with mixture of Hispanic/Elizabethan details. 5 storeys and attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Moulded cornice over C20 shop fronts with bracketed broken-pedimented central doorway to panelled door set in semi- circular arched architrave; festooned swan-necked pediment set above richly- carved panel to tympanum. Festoons flank bracketed architrave to central pro- jecting first-floor window which has carved festoons to frieze beneath balus- traded parapet of second-floor window which has columns with foliate capitals to swan-necked pediment. First and second floor has rounded projecting bay windows with carved detail to pediments and stone-transomed windows with fluted Ionic pilasters to broad mullions. Third-floor stone-mullioned and transomed cross windows have bracketed swan-necked flanking central triangular pediments; cross windows beneath richly-carved bracketed cornice. Bracketed pediments to dormer windows flanking central dormer with segmental-pedimented tablet set in broken pediment. A striking early example of Free Style architecture.
Listing NGR: SP0706786813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409856
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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