136 AND 138, EDMUND STREET B3

136 AND 138, EDMUND STREET B3

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075618
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
136 AND 138, EDMUND STREET B3
Statutory Address:
136 AND 138, EDMUND STREET B3
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075618
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1970
Date of most recent amendment:
08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:
136 AND 138, EDMUND STREET B3
Statutory Address 1:
136 AND 138, EDMUND STREET B3

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
136 AND 138, EDMUND 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:
SP0680987135

Details

1.
5104
SP 0687 SE
29/20
21.1.70

EDMUND STREET
(north-west side)
City Centre B3
Nos 136 and 138
(formerly listed as No 36)

II
GV

2.
Circa 1880, in a Venetian Gothic style. Brick and terracotta. Four storeys;
5 bays. Ground floor articulated and now painted, the outer arched entrances
slightly broader and taller than the 3 centre arches and having an enriched
sexfoil in the tympana. The entrance to No 138 with a perhaps later gable
over it. The outer bays have trefoil-headed sash windows, on the first floor
beneath pointed arches with floral hoodstops and, on the 2nd floor, beneath
a gable. The 3 inner bays each have 2 sash windows within a single tall lancet
with hoodmould with floral hoodstops. In the spandrels diaper work. Third
floor with a row of 12 narrow windows with bar tracery. Between them rise
narrow brackets for the richly decorated cornice.

Listing NGR: SP0680987135

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
217035
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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