BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1117383
Date first listed: 24-Nov-1995
Statutory Address: BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX, BRUNEL STREET
Statutory Address: BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX, NAVIGATION STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX, BRUNEL STREET
Statutory Address: BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX, NAVIGATION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
National Grid Reference: SP 06719 86672
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SP 08 NE BIRMINGHAM NAVIGATION STREET
7/10058 Birmingham New Street
Signal Box
II
Includes: Birmingham New Street Signal Box BRUNEL STREET. Railway signal box. 1964. Architects Bicknell and Hamilton in collaboration with R L Moorcraft the Regional Architect, London Midland Region. Horizontal pre-cast concrete cladding units of a bold triangular profile, hung from a reinforced concrete frame. The boundary parapet wall in Navigation Street is constructed from facetted vertical pre-cast concrete units. Continuous metal windows; walls on either side of the entrance doors are finished in vertical glazed tiling. Flat roof. Contains staff and equipment rooms. Five storeys high above railway track level and four storeys above street level with single storey wing at track level. Various floor to floor heights. The signalling control room at top level is surrounded by a projecting flat roof with a deep down-standing fascia to provide shading for the control console. The building is very much a 'one off' constructed on a very difficult and congested site. A dramatic building of exceptional architectural quality with a strongly sculptural form.
Sources: Architectural Review, November 1965
Building, 18 August 1967
Railway Magazine, October 1966, pp.564-7
Listing NGR: SP0671986672
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 442131
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'Architectural Review' in November, (1965)
'Railway Magazine' in October, (1966), 564-7
'Building' in August, (1967)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing