BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX

BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX, BRUNEL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117383
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX
Statutory Address:: BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX, BRUNEL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117383
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX
Statutory Address 1:: BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX, BRUNEL STREET
Statutory Address 2:: BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET SIGNAL BOX, NAVIGATION STREET

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:: 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)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 06719 86672

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

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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.