Dorman Smith Switchgear Limited Midland Regional Office

DORMAN SMITH SWITCHGEAR LIMITED MIDLAND REGIONAL OFFICE, 204 AND 206, NEWHALL STREET B3

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1076241
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:
Dorman Smith Switchgear Limited Midland Regional Office
Statutory Address:
DORMAN SMITH SWITCHGEAR LIMITED MIDLAND REGIONAL OFFICE, 204 AND 206, NEWHALL STREET B3
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1076241
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:
Dorman Smith Switchgear Limited Midland Regional Office
Statutory Address 1:
DORMAN SMITH SWITCHGEAR LIMITED MIDLAND REGIONAL OFFICE, 204 AND 206, NEWHALL STREET B3

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
DORMAN SMITH SWITCHGEAR LIMITED MIDLAND REGIONAL OFFICE, 204 AND 206, 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 06316 87406

Details

NEWHALL STREET 1. 5104 (South-west side) City Centre B3 Nos 204 and 206 (Dorman Smith Switchgear Limited: Midland Regional Office) SP 0687 SW 28/15 II 2. Circa 1900. Red brick with terracotta "stone" dressings and facings to ground floor. Three storeys; 2 gabled bays with slate roof behind. Ground floor with door, 2 windows and door, all set within simple openings with quadrant upper corners. Broad oversailing cornice. First floor with 4 windows in the rhythm 2 x 2 and in brick frames with stone keystones. Second floor with 2 large semi-circular windows. Almost all windows complete with original glazing bars. Three characteristic rainwater heads.

Listing NGR: SP0631687404

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Legacy System number:
217442
Legacy System:
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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.

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