89 AND 91, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1, 81-87, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1

81-87, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1076316
Date first listed:
15-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:
89 AND 91, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1, 81-87, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1
Statutory Address:
81-87, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1076316
Date first listed:
15-Oct-1981
Date of most recent amendment:
08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:
89 AND 91, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1, 81-87, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1
Statutory Address 1:
81-87, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1
Statutory Address 2:
89 AND 91, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
81-87, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1
Statutory Address:
89 AND 91, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1

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 06779 86550

Details

JOHN BRIGHT STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B1 5.11.81 Nos 81 to 87 (odd) 15.10.81 and Nos 89 and 91 SP 0686 NE 33/41 II GV 2. Circa 1900. Brick and yellow terracotta. Three storeys plus attic; 2 bays separated by polygonal turrets now only through first and second floors plus the canted corner and the return on Lower Severn Street. Ground floor with modern shop front. First floor with 4 broad windows with ause-de-panier heads and intermittent voussoirs. Second floor with, on the left, 2 shallow triangular bay windows beneath an entablature above which rises a gable with a canted bay window within it and, on the right, 4 windows with 3-light mullioned upper parts and heads in the rhythm flat: 2 segmental: flat beneath a parapet, above which rises the roof with modern skylights in it. The corner and return on Lower Severn Street generally similar but with a second floor acutely angled triangular bay window on the corner rising up to stand at attic level in front of the steep gable.

Listing NGR: SP0677986550

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
217326
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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