55, ST PAUL'S SQUARE

55, ST PAUL'S SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1076172
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
55, ST PAUL'S SQUARE
Statutory Address:
55, ST PAUL'S SQUARE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1076172
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1970
Date of most recent amendment:
08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:
55, ST PAUL'S SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:
55, ST PAUL'S SQUARE

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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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:
55, ST PAUL'S SQUARE

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 06478 87392

Details

ST PAUL'S SQUARE 1. 5104 Hockley B3 No 55 (formerly listed under City Centre) SP 0687 SW 28/19 21.1.70 II GV 2. Includes No 61 Charlotte Street. Circa 1780 originally 2 town houses on south-west corner of square, altered as one premises, early C20, with some changes in the fenestration and detailing. Three storeys red brick with entablature below eaves of hipped roof, all of early C20. Seven bay front to square, the upper floors with renewed glazing bar sashes, painted stone sills and flat arches with grooved voussoirs and keystones. The ground floor windows altered with a 5 bay arcade. Charlotte Street elevation has 3 bays with early C20 extension. Above doorway is a good original Venetian window with slender dividing columns andover it, on the second floor, is a sash window with gothic intersecting glazing bar pattern to upper sash under a cambered painted stone architrave arch, with keystone, returned down to small imposts. The fluted Ionic pilaster Tripartite ashlar doorcase is an early C20 addition as is the large cartouche - like sculptured advertising panel to the blind right hand bay. An important corner site.

Listing NGR: SP0647887390

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
217574
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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