Harris and Pearson Entrance Building
HARRIS AND PEARSON ENTRANCE BUILDING, BRETTELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268310
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Harris and Pearson Entrance Building
- Statutory Address:
- HARRIS AND PEARSON ENTRANCE BUILDING, BRETTELL LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268310
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Harris and Pearson Entrance Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARRIS AND PEARSON ENTRANCE BUILDING, BRETTELL LANE
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:
- HARRIS AND PEARSON ENTRANCE BUILDING, BRETTELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dudley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 90739 86273
Details
SO 98 NW DUDLEY BRETTELL LANE
(north west side)
6/10018 Harris and Pearson
Entrance Building
II
Offices and weigh house to brickworks. 1888 for the Harris and Pearson brickworks. Yellow bricks with blue brick bands and terracotta dressings. Plain tile roof with bands of scalloped tiles and coped gable ends. Brick gable-end stacks. PLAN : L-shaped on plan with carriageway through main front range and wing to rear left; inside the carriageway there is a weighbridge. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front of 2:3:2 windows; the bays divided by brick pilasters surmounted by terracotta ogee caps, the centre bay gabled with finial and with elliptically arched carriageway with keyblock and imposts; similarly arched windows to left and right and tripartite window above carriageway in similarly arched recess; moulded stringcourses and terracotta inscription above carriageway: HARRIS and PEARSON. At rear, gabled wing on right with stack on splayed corner; carriageway in block in the angle to the right has RSJ above. Inside the carriageway an iron weighbridge inscribed "To weigh 20 tons. S. Denison and Son Ltd. Leeds". INTERIOR not inspected.
NOTE: Harris and Pearson made firebricks, gas retorts and glass-house pots.
Listing NGR: SO9073986273
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461961
- 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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