MURDOCH CHAMBERS AND PITMAN CHAMBERS

MURDOCH CHAMBERS, 153, CORPORATION STREET B3

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1075604
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: MURDOCH CHAMBERS AND PITMAN CHAMBERS
Statutory Address:: MURDOCH CHAMBERS, 153, CORPORATION STREET B3

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1075604
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: MURDOCH CHAMBERS AND PITMAN CHAMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: MURDOCH CHAMBERS, 153, CORPORATION STREET B3
Statutory Address 2:: PITMAN CHAMBERS, 155-161, CORPORATION STREET B3

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MURDOCH CHAMBERS, 153, CORPORATION STREET B3
Statutory Address:: PITMAN CHAMBERS, 155-161, CORPORATION STREET B3

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 07269 87214

Details

SP 0787 SW 30/1

City Centre B3 CORPORATION STREET (west side) No 153 (Murdoch Chambers) Nos 155 to 161 (odd) (Pitman Chambers)

21.1.70

GV II* 1896-7, by J Crouch and E Butler, partly for A.R Dean, manufacturer of much of the furniture for Crouch and Butler's houses and partly for a vegetarian restaurant. Purple bricks and buff terracotta; tile roof. In an Arts and Crafts style.

Four storeys plus two storeys of attics; five bays in the rhythm 1:2:1:1, the first with a polygonal domed attic room on the skyline, the second and third beneath a broad gable with pedicule surmounted by three figures and the fifth with a smaller gabled flanked by little squat attic turrets. Ground floor with arched entrances left and right of modern shop fronts. First floor with three triplets of windows with a band of excellently carved lively reliefs by Benjamin Creswick below and within broad arches with big voussoir stones; left and right, a two-light window and a pedimented three-light window. Second floor with a canted bay window rising into the storey above two segmentally-pedimented three-light windows, a broad canted bay window and three arched windows. Third floor with sash windows and a three-light transomed window all beneath a richly decorated eaves cornice. In the big gable four arched windows beneath a continuous pedimented head, in the small gable a shallow bow window. In the roof between the gables two tiers of four-light flat-headed attic windows.

Listing NGR: SP0726987214

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Legacy System number:: 217010
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.