67, 68 AND 69, ALBION STREET B1
67, 68 AND 69, ALBION STREET B1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232017
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 67, 68 AND 69, ALBION STREET B1
- Statutory Address:
- 67, 68 AND 69, ALBION STREET B1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232017
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 67, 68 AND 69, ALBION STREET B1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 67, 68 AND 69, ALBION 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:
- 67, 68 AND 69, ALBION 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 05960 87415
Details
ALBION STREET 1. 5104 Hockley B1 Nos, 67, 68 and 69 SP 0587 SE 27/4 II GV 2. Built as the Corporation Fire Station 1909-10. Architect T G Price (The Builder 1909, ol 96, p 19), not H E Stilgoe the City Surveyor referred to on the foundation stone. A large asymmetrical extended L-plan block of buildings on a corner site. Built on 2 and 3 storeys of thin, machined, hard red bricks with rebated pointing and ashlar dressings. Baroque derivation, the design combines Edwardian "Wrenaissance" elements with Birmingham Arts and Crafts motifs. Steep pitched roofs with stone coped gable ends and stone eaves cornices; the ridge of the fire station proper is surmounted by a small cupola; slightly battered chimney stacks with sharply cut stone cornices. The dominant theme in the fire station corner block is the use of large scale stone arcaded ground floor openings with squat piers and boldly modelled arches with triple keys. This arch motif is echoed by the heavy door hood in the 2 storey link with the north-east wing, in the crest above in the parapet and again in the semi-circular pediment above the revealed centre bay of the otherwise plain end block of the wing. The fire station proper has first floor windows in eased architraves with cambered cornices, the parapet being raised in small gables above the first 3 bays but stopping short where the eaves of the roof are carried out over the plain fourth bay. In the 2 storey link and the 3 storey gabled section of the wing (balancing the fire station) the windows have architraves and cornices with keys. The revealed centre bay beneath the gable is entirely stone dressed with chequerwork to it rounded head. Yard entrance flanked by piers to south-east with single storey gate house beyond, similarly detailed to the main block. A prominent corner site.
Listing NGR: SP0595487414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216718
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in The Builder, Vol. 96, (1909), 19
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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