School of Art, Birmingham City University
SCHOOL OF ART, BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY, MARGARET STREET B3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076258
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- School of Art, Birmingham City University
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL OF ART, BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY, MARGARET STREET B3
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076258
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- School of Art, Birmingham City University
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL OF ART, BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY, MARGARET 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:
- SCHOOL OF ART, BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY, MARGARET 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 06660 87027
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/03/2013
SF 0687 SE 29/28
5104
21.1.70
MARGARET STREET
City Centre B3
School of Art, Birmingham City University
(First listed as College of Arts and Crafts; and Art and Design Annexe, Birmingham Polytechnic at date of most recent amendment)
I
1881-85, by Martin and Chamberlain and extended along Cornwall Street in 1893. Brick and terracotta with stone dressings and some tile decoration and with mosaic in the central gable; tiled roof with bracketted eaves cornice and decorative ridge tiles. In a Gothic style. Three and 4 storeys; 5 bays, the central and outer ones all gabled though differently in width and height, a facade as brilliantly successful as it is wholly asymmetrical. The centre bay with the gabled entrance arch flanked by pinnacles and carrying a big pointed arched opening within the gable above. The door behind gates and up a steep flight of steps within a room with arches carried on granite columns and a flat panelled wooden ceiling. Ground floor windows all with shouldered and moulded heads. First floor windows all broad lancets in various groupings; then, on the left a roundel by Barlow of Leicester with splended foliage in an Art Nouveau style, a band of trefoil headed lancets with roundels below and, on the right, a big canted bay window carried on a tripartite buttress rising up from basement level and with a triplet of lancets above. Excellent floral details in the spandrels. Inside, too, with excellent detailing everywhere including mosaic floors, stained glass windows, fine metalwork and joinery and carved capitals. The studios on the top floor large and functionally constructed with big iron arches with quatrefoils. On the return, the 9 bays of the extension differ from the 5 bays of the original in having figures (by Benjamin Creswick) rather than foliage in the tympana of the arches.
Listing NGR: SP0666087027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217391
- 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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