12, AMPTON ROAD B15
12, AMPTON ROAD B15
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075740
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 12, AMPTON ROAD B15
- Statutory Address:
- 12, AMPTON ROAD B15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075740
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 12, AMPTON ROAD B15
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, AMPTON ROAD B15
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:
- 12, AMPTON ROAD B15
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 05622 85228
Details
AMPTON ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 No 12 SP 0585 45/6 22.4.76 II* GV 2. Dated 1855 and designed and built by John Henry Chamberlain for himself. Visually the first house in Birmingham to demonstrate Ruskin's principles of Gothic polychromy. Two storeys and attics, fine red brick with polychrome brick. Tile and stone dressings, built on a crosswing L-plan, Gothic details. Three bay front the left hand advanced and gabled. Steep gable end roofs with patterned slates and decorative ridge tiles. First floor band of coloured tiles and another similar below dogtooth corbelled eaves. On the left a 2 storey Gothic canted bay window with decorative tilework, the entrance next to break with original door with 3 encircled trefoils in the tympanum above, all beneath a bold Gothic arch on corbel stops and flanked by either side by a single cusped lancet; triple group of lancets to right. First floor has apart from the upper portion of the bay window, a pair of segment headed narrow windows and a triple group to the right. All windows sashes, some with decorative leadwork to heads. The west return elevation is similar but instead of a canted bay window, a tripartite arrangement of lancets, the centre broader and larger, subdivided by a shaft and with a corbelled balcony to the first floor. Interior unaltered with heavy staircase with simple Gothic detail, original doors and door furniture and shafted fireplaces.
Listing NGR: SP0562285228
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216740
- 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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