39-42 Cannon Street, including 9-15 Needless Alley
39-42, Cannon Street B2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220444
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 39-42 Cannon Street, including 9-15 Needless Alley
- Statutory Address:
- 39-42, Cannon Street B2
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- Date:
- 2001-01-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/01667/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220444
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 39-42 Cannon Street, including 9-15 Needless Alley
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39-42, Cannon Street B2
- Statutory Address 2:
- 9-15, Needless Alley B2
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:
- 39-42, Cannon Street B2
- Statutory Address:
- 9-15, Needless Alley B2
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 06990 86851
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 September 2022 to reformat the name, address and text to current standards
SP 0686 NE
33/12
City Centre B2
CANNON STREET
Nos 39 to 42 (consec)
21.1.70
GV
II
Includes Nos 9 to 15 (odd) Needless Alley.
Circa 1900 and so similar to No 45 Cannon Street that it, too, must be by Essex, Goodman and Nicol. Pink terracotta; slate roof. Four storeys; four bays gently curving with the street. Ground floor with modern shop front. First floor with canted bay windows rising through two storeys and terminating in balconies. The lights have ause-de-panier arches and pretty, detached scrolly members end are linked vertically by baluster-like shafts. Third floor with paired arched lights within ogee-cum-semi-circular pedimented attics against the roof.
Listing NGR: SP0699086851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216858
- 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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