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37-40, LEE CRESCENT B15

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076283
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1981
List Entry Name:: 37-40, LEE CRESCENT B15
Statutory Address:: 37-40, LEE CRESCENT B15

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Date:: 2001-05-07
Reference:: IOE01/03268/19
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076283
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1981
List Entry Name:: 37-40, LEE CRESCENT B15
Statutory Address 1:: 37-40, LEE CRESCENT B15

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 37-40, LEE CRESCENT 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 06253 85689

Details

LEE CRESCENT 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 Nos 37 to 40 (consec) SP 0685 NW 41/5 31.12.81 II GV 2. Circa 1830. Two palm of 3 storey, red brick, tunnel back houses, part of an irregular terrace Nos 31 to 40. Nos 37-38 are stepped slightly higher on hill. Particularly good examples of the tunnel back type, line used to create the impression of substantial 3 bay symmetrical elevations, One window only to each floor to left and right of entrances, revealed glazing bar sashes (squat, 2 x 4 panes top floor), stucco sills and stucco heeds on Tuscan capital stops, with cornices on ground and first floors. Shallow moulded eaves cornices and low pitch gable end slate roofs with brick chimney stacks and ornamental pots. Each pair has a single central passage entrance treated as if it were main doorway, set in antis under semi-circular rubbed brick gauged arch. That of Nos 37-38 has door of 6 moulded panels in panelled reveal framed by coupled very slender wooden Tuscan columns with reeded string below frieze and shallow projecting cornice, the lunette fanlight above marginal glazed with geometric pattern; that of Nos 39-40 is variant of the same design with delicately fluted, flattened columns, the lunette fanlight above cornice having in this case a swagged radial glazing pattern. The actual house doors face each other half way down the tunnel passage, linked by a semi-circular cross vault with panelled soffit. The doorway details repeat those of passage entrances with same coupled columns etc, blind fanlights. A well preserved and important example of tunnel back housing once so common in the city.

Listing NGR: SP0625385689

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

Legacy System number:: 217349
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.