Nos. 6, 7 and 8 Lower Rushall Street

6, 7 AND 8, LOWER RUSHALL STREET, WALSALL, WS1 2AA

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A terrace of three houses, built in c1800, with C20 alterations and refurbishment. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076374
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: Nos. 6, 7 and 8 Lower Rushall Street
Statutory Address:: 6, 7 AND 8, LOWER RUSHALL STREET, WALSALL, WS1 2AA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076374
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-2014
List Entry Name:: Nos. 6, 7 and 8 Lower Rushall Street
Statutory Address 1:: 6, 7 AND 8, LOWER RUSHALL STREET, WALSALL, WS1 2AA

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:: 6, 7 AND 8, LOWER RUSHALL STREET, WALSALL, WS1 2AA

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP0169598536

Summary

A terrace of three houses, built in c1800, with C20 alterations and refurbishment.

Reasons for Designation

Nos. 6, 7 and 8 Lower Rushall Street, built in c1800 is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Date and rarity: a rare surviving example of a modest terrace built prior to 1840; * Architectural interest: a good design with good-quality decorative finishes to the lintels and doorcases; * Historic interest and group value: together with 11 Lower Rushall Street (Grade II) the houses were once part of the premises of Moses Eyland who founded one of the area's best known spectacle-making firms.

History

Nos. 6, 7 and 8 Lower Rushall Street form a terrace of three houses built in c1800. The historic maps show that they were part of a longer row of terraced houses; those to the south of No. 6 were demolished as part of the 1930s slum clearances.

Walsall was a centre for making optical glass and mirrors and by the early C19 these houses, together with No. 11 Lower Rushall Street (now flats, 2013) formed part of the business premises of Moses Eyland who, in 1813, founded one of the area's best known spectacle-making firms here. By 1818 Eyland combined the trade with that of saddler's ironmonger, and by 1822 the firm had become Moses Eyland & Sons. In the late C19 the business expanded into buckle manufacture, gilding and electro-plating and the buildings to the rear of the terrace are referred to as ‘Buckle Works' on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map (1887) . The 4th edition Ordnance Survey map (1938) shows an alleyway to the south side of No. 6, presumably to provide access to the large building to its rear (west), and by the mid-C20 this building had been amalgamated with No. 6. The buildings to the rear have since been demolished.

A mid-C20 photograph of the front elevation of Nos. 6, 7 and 8 Lower Rushall Street shows the houses to have had a corrugated asbestos roof at that time, also that there were a pair of garage doors in place of the original entrance door and ground-floor window to No. 6, and that there was a bow window to the ground floor of No.7. Nos. 6, 7 and 8 Lower Rushall Street were added to the List in 1986 at which time they were described as workshops. Since then they have been sympathetically restored and all the original window and door openings have been re-instated.

Details

A terrace of three houses, built in c1800, with C20 alterations and refurbishment. MATERIALS: constructed of red brick laid in Flemish bond under a plain tile roof with a coped stone gable to the south end. There are three brick chimney stacks to the ridge of the front and rear roof range.

PLAN: three, single-bay houses that are of three storeys and double-depth on plan.

EXTERIOR: each house is arranged with a doorway to the left and windows to the right. The late-C20 doorways comprise a six-panel door within a timber pilaster doorcase, with triangular pediment above; the doorcase to No. 6 is a late-C20 copy. The windows are arranged as eight-over-eight sash windows to the ground and first floors with stucco lintels above, that have stepped keystones and chamfered voussoirs. The windows to the ground floor date from the late C20. To the second floor are three-over-three sash windows. To the side (south) elevation of No. 6 is evidence for a former attached building.

INTERIOR: not inspected (2013).

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 219115
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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, accessed from http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY/1999-10/0940895630
, accessed from http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2261595
, accessed from http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/All-aboard-for-a-grand-day-out-Walsall-workers-out-in-Worcestershire-2.htm
'Walsall: Economic history', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17: Offlow hundred (part) (1976), accessed from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36193

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.