Ruskin Buildings
RUSKIN BUILDINGS, 179-203, CORPORATION STREET B2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075606
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Ruskin Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- RUSKIN BUILDINGS, 179-203, CORPORATION STREET B2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075606
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Ruskin Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUSKIN BUILDINGS, 179-203, CORPORATION STREET B2
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:
- RUSKIN BUILDINGS, 179-203, CORPORATION STREET B2
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 07368 87363
Details
CORPORATION STREET 1. 5104 (west side) City Centre Nos 179 to 203 (odd) (Ruskin Buildings) SP 0787 SW 30/5 8.6.82 II GV 2. Late C19. Red brick and terracotta; slate roof. Five storeys plus attic. 13 bays, the outer ones slightly advanced and with little shaped gables, the inner 3 with polygonal shafts either side from third floor level and a large gable. Ground floor with central door up steps within a round-headed arch with masks in the spandrels and an open segmental pediment and mostly altered shop fronts. First and second floors with shallow bay windows, those of the first floor with arched lights, those of the second floor with decorative panels below and little balconies to the third floor windows above. Third floor with couplets of windows in moulded surrounds. Fourth floor with Serlian windows standing on a moulded sill band and between stumpy columns to the bracketted eaves cornice. In the attic, flat-headed dormer windows. The outer and 3 centre bays differ from this system. The centre 3 bays have a central shallow bow window rising from first to third floor where the outer windows have concave- sided gables. In the gable, slender colonettes and moulded strings enclosing shell-headed niches, 4 segmented-headed windows and 4 blind arched windows. The outer bays all of terracotta and with third floor windows with concave-sided gables.
Listing NGR: SP0736887363
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217014
- 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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