OFFICE ROW, WEST OF EAST GATE AT SOHO FOUNDRY

OFFICE ROW, WEST OF EAST GATE AT SOHO FOUNDRY, FOUNDRY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1216064
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: OFFICE ROW, WEST OF EAST GATE AT SOHO FOUNDRY
Statutory Address:: OFFICE ROW, WEST OF EAST GATE AT SOHO FOUNDRY, FOUNDRY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1216064
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: OFFICE ROW, WEST OF EAST GATE AT SOHO FOUNDRY
Statutory Address 1:: OFFICE ROW, WEST OF EAST GATE AT SOHO FOUNDRY, FOUNDRY LANE

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:: OFFICE ROW, WEST OF EAST GATE AT SOHO FOUNDRY, FOUNDRY LANE

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

District:: Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 03620 88825

Details

SANDWELL MB FOUNDRY LANE (off) SP 08 NW Smethwick 9/77 Office Row, west of 30.3.87 east gate at Soho Foundry

GV II

Row of seven houses, now offices. Early to mid-C19. Buff-coloured brick with slate roof. Two storeys. All openings have segmental heads. At the left is a taller block of three bays under a hipped roof. The paired door- ways are in the central bay. The other five former houses are each of two bays. The right hand bay of each has a blind recess on the first floor and a doorway below. The doorway of the right hand house is now blocked. Chimneys to each side of taller block, and to right of third and fourth houses. Soho Foundry is on the site of the foundry established in 1796 by Boulton, Watt and Sons for the manufacture of steam engine parts. These houses stood out- side the gates of the original foundry. The left hand house is said to have been occupied for a few years by William Murdock (1754 - 1839), the company's chief engine erector and a pioneer of gas lighting. (Gale, W K V, Soho Foundry, 1946).

Listing NGR: SP0361988826

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Gale, W K V, Soho Foundry, (1946)

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