Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 78 AND 79, BROAD STREET B1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220284
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 78 AND 79, BROAD STREET B1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220284
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 78 AND 79, BROAD STREET B1
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 78 AND 79, BROAD 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 05950 86428
Details
BROAD STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B1 Nos 78 and 79 (Barclays Bank) SP 08 NE 7/20A II 2. 1898, by C E Bateman. Red brick and stone; green slate tiled roof with bold straited chimneys. Three storeys plus attic; 6 bays. In an Arts and Crafts interpretation of the late C17 style. Ground floor with banded rustication and 4 windows and a pair of narrower windows and a subsidiary door reading together as 2 bays. First floor with 6 tall sash windows in stone eared surrounds with bulgy friezes and dentilled cornices and fine wrought-iron balcony railings. Second floor with 6 almost square sash windows in stone surrounds. In the attic 6 pedimented dormer casement windows. Elaborately bracketted eaves cornice. The return on Sheepcote Street. Two bays wide and similarly treated, but with a single-storeyed stone porch, triangular in plan, set piquantly in the second bay, ie towards the Broad Street front. Excellent detailing throughout.
Listing NGR: SP0595086428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216824
- 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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