39-42 Cannon Street, including 9-15 Needless Alley

39-42, Cannon Street B2

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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:: 39-42, Cannon Street B2

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 216858
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.