17 and 19, Newhall Street and 103, Edmund Street
103, Edmund Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076238
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 17 and 19, Newhall Street and 103, Edmund Street
- Statutory Address:
- 103, Edmund Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076238
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 17 and 19, Newhall Street and 103, Edmund Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 103, Edmund Street
- Statutory Address 2:
- 17 and 19, Newhall Street, B3
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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:
- 103, Edmund Street
- Statutory Address:
- 17 and 19, Newhall 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:
- SP 06790 87073
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 26 September 2024 to update the description, add source and to reformat the text to current standards
SP 0687 SE
29/29
City Centre B3
NEWHALL STREET (north-east side)
Nos 17 and 19
(formerly listed as Nos 17 and 19 (General Post office))
21.1.70
I
Includes No 103 Edmund Street.
1896, telephone exchange, by F Martin (the son) of Martin and Chamberlain for the Bell Edison Company. Red brick; tiled roof. Three storeys; six bays divided by tall buttresses topped by turrets plus seventh bay on the angle to the return in Edmund Street. First bay similar to the third but broader, both with balconies at second floor level; two bay broad, gabled and containing the entrance up steps behind splendid iron gates and within an arched and gabled porch above with a shallow canted bay window at first floor level; fourth and fifth bays arched and identical except at ground floor where the fourth bay has a subsidiary entrance (that to No 17 Newhall Street); sixth bay similar to the fifth but narrow. Ground and first floor windows simple sashes within roll-moulded frames. Second floor windows casements with arched heads and within a band of cut brickwork of the highest virtuosity. The corner with a two-storeyed bow window within its tall narrow arch and gabled.
The return on Edmund Street (where there is the entrance to No 103 Edmund Street) with four bays in the rhythm 2:2. Each bay with a two-storeyed shallow canted bay window within its tall arch and each pair with a broad shaped gable with powerfully vertical chimney stack soaring through it.
Listing NGR: SP0679087073
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217435
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Foster, A, Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Birmingham and the Black Country, (2022), p 159-160
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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