264 and 265 Broad Street and 2 Gas Street
2, Gas Street, Birmingham B1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075688
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 264 and 265 Broad Street and 2 Gas Street
- Statutory Address:
- 2, Gas Street, Birmingham B1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075688
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 264 and 265 Broad Street and 2 Gas Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, Gas Street, Birmingham B1
- Statutory Address 2:
- 264 and 265, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2DS
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:
- 2, Gas Street, Birmingham B1
- Statutory Address:
- 264 and 265, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2DS
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 06154 86638
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 February 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SP 0686 NW
32/6
City Centre B1
BROAD STREET
Nos 264 and 265
(Formerly listed as Nos 266 and 266X)
GV
II
Includes No 2 Gas Street. Circa 1875 by Martin Chamberlain. Red brick with some stone; tiled roof with decorative ridge tiles. Two and three storeys; three bays, that on the left broad and gabled, those on the right narrow and gabled. In a Gothic style. Ground floor with modern shop fronts. Left-hand bay with four first floor sash windows with glazing bars in the upper sashes only and two second floor almost square sash windows with diagonally set bricks between vertical lesenes left, right and over. Right-hand two bays identical: a couplet of pointed arched windows with octofoil set in stone and a little cut brick in the gable above. The right-hand return with entrance to No 2 Gas Street and a left-hand large gable with fine cut brick foliage in the apex and a right-hand smaller gable
similar to the smaller ones on the Broad Street elevation. The building stands astride the Canal.
Listing NGR: SP0615486638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216826
- 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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