Former Birmingham Municipal Bank Trustee Savings Bank
FORMER BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL BANK, BROAD STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268165
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Birmingham Municipal Bank Trustee Savings Bank
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL BANK, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268165
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Birmingham Municipal Bank Trustee Savings Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL BANK, BROAD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, BROAD STREET
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:
- FORMER BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL BANK, BROAD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, BROAD STREET
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 06363 86740
Details
SP 0686 NW BIRMINGHAM BROAD STREET
(south side)
997/32/10167 Former Birmingham
Municipal Bank (TSB)
GV II
Bank. 1931, by T. Cecil Howitt. Portland stone and granite ashlar. Roof concealed.
PLAN: Rectangular plan with entrance, in recessed centre of front behind colonnade, to large rectangular banking hall surrounded by offices. Monumental classical style building.
EXTERIOR: Centre of north front breaks forward With Tetrastyle colonnade of giant Ionic columns in antis with broad terminal piers, flanked by blind rusticated walls with recessed corners, the returns of the recesses have tall and narrow decorative grilles; the entablature has a tall parapet and blind attic above set back, with a carved frieze. Behind the colonnade, 5 bays, the windows with architraves, the ground floor with grilles and with roundels above; central round-arched doorway in moulded architrave with rosettes and with bronze doors and fanlight grille; flanking the doorway ornate bronze lanterns. The side elevations have 1:7:1 bays, the end bays advanced, the windows in moulded architraves, those on ground floor with cornices and pediments on consoles, the tall parapet reduced at the centre to reveal round arched attic windows.
INTERIOR: Large banking hall clad in polished limestone, the arcaded side walls with barley-twist arris mouldings to the arches and with carved roundels above; the front wall has small balconettes and grilles; the ceiling is coffered.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 116.
Listing NGR: SP0636386740
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462175
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 116
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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