Front Range of the Birmingham Mint Facing Icknield Street, and Buildings Around the Courtyard
FRONT RANGE OF THE BIRMINGHAM MINT FACING ICKNIELD STREET, AND BUILDINGS AROUND THE COURTYARD, ICKNIELD STREET B18
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076314
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Front Range of the Birmingham Mint Facing Icknield Street, and Buildings Around the Courtyard
- Statutory Address:
- FRONT RANGE OF THE BIRMINGHAM MINT FACING ICKNIELD STREET, AND BUILDINGS AROUND THE COURTYARD, ICKNIELD STREET B18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076314
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Front Range of the Birmingham Mint Facing Icknield Street, and Buildings Around the Courtyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRONT RANGE OF THE BIRMINGHAM MINT FACING ICKNIELD STREET, AND BUILDINGS AROUND THE COURTYARD, ICKNIELD STREET B18
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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:
- FRONT RANGE OF THE BIRMINGHAM MINT FACING ICKNIELD STREET, AND BUILDINGS AROUND THE COURTYARD, ICKNIELD STREET B18
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 05765 87762
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/02/2013
SP 08 NE 7/58
5104
ICKNIELD STREET
Hockley B18
Front Range of the Birmingham Mint facing Icknield Street, and buildings around the courtyard
(Formerly listed as The Birmingham Mint)
II
Transferred to this site in 1860, the Birmingham Mint was the largest independent mint in the world. Built around a rectangular yard the works have a symmetrical formal elevation to the street, in an Italianate red brick style. A long range on 3 storeys of 2:5:1:5:2 bays, the end pairs and broader pedimented centre breaking forward. Hipped slate roofs. Ground floor has round headed windows recessed in arcade with ashlar impost band and keystones, rising from basement plinth and containing panelled sill zones. Entablature with projecting ashlar cornice over ground floor. Upper floors articulated by brick pilasters set on pedestals in the applied parapet, the first floor sill course broken forward over bases; panelled zones below second floor sills defined by sections of ashlar string course between the pilasters. Ashlar bed mould to main entablature with projecting ashlar eaves cornice. The centrepiece has channelled ashlar ground floor with large rounded archway, the keystone angled out as bracket to support 2 storey tripartite ashlar bow window with panelled aprons, divided by consoles on second floor; the main entablature is broken forward over the bow. The range along the street is the front range of a quadrangular plan, of which the interior faces of the courtyard have an arcaded treatment. The Mint owes its origin to a business founded by the Heaton family in 1794; by 1851 the company began minting coinage and was responsible for many important developments in minting technology. The Birmingham Mint has the longest history of any independent mint in the world.
Listing NGR: SP0574587810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217321
- 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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