SELLY OAK ELECTRICITY SUB STATION TO REAR OF NUMBER 659

SELLY OAK ELECTRICITY SUB STATION TO REAR OF NUMBER 659, BRISTOL ROAD B29

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075728
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: SELLY OAK ELECTRICITY SUB STATION TO REAR OF NUMBER 659
Statutory Address:: SELLY OAK ELECTRICITY SUB STATION TO REAR OF NUMBER 659, BRISTOL ROAD B29

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075728
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: SELLY OAK ELECTRICITY SUB STATION TO REAR OF NUMBER 659
Statutory Address 1:: SELLY OAK ELECTRICITY SUB STATION TO REAR OF NUMBER 659, BRISTOL ROAD B29

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:: SELLY OAK ELECTRICITY SUB STATION TO REAR OF NUMBER 659, BRISTOL ROAD B29

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 04386 82900

Details

BRISTOL ROAD 1. 5104 (west side) Selly Oak B29 Selly Oak Electricity Sub-Station to rear of No 659 SP 08 SW 11/6 II 2. Circa 1890. Tall brick and terracotta building with stone dressings, in a Gothic style associated with Chamberlain. Seen from the road the building appears as very tall version of a 2 storeyed French Gothic Royal Chapel, raised on a high and on a rectangular plan. The south-east front (short side) has a deep flight of steps leading up to the portal with window above, flanked by buttresses. The top floor has triple group of lights set in pointed arcade of cut ornamental brickwork. Steeply hipped tiled roof with terracotta floral bracketed eaves cornice and terracotta finials. On the east return elevation a gabled staircase tower abuts the entrance front with stepped lights on the east face, followed on the top floor or "clerestory" by a tall pointed blind arcade of 3 bays with cut brickwork and ashlar shafts, rising from a weathered string. Projecting from the basement and ground floor is an apsed transept with stone dressed lobed arcaded light, terracotta eaves and a steep tiled roof curved to bow of apse. Lower single storey transept wing off south-west side.

Listing NGR: SP0438682900

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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.