Minerals and Physical Metallurgy Building, University of Birmingham

Minerals and Physical Metallurgy Building, University of Birmingham, Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276183
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: Minerals and Physical Metallurgy Building, University of Birmingham
Statutory Address:: Minerals and Physical Metallurgy Building, University of Birmingham, Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276183
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-May-1993
List Entry Name:: Minerals and Physical Metallurgy Building, University of Birmingham
Statutory Address 1:: Minerals and Physical Metallurgy Building, University of Birmingham, Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston

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:: Minerals and Physical Metallurgy Building, University of Birmingham, Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston

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 04872 84010

Details

SP 08 SW 11/10034 BIRMINGHAM EDGBASTON PRITCHATTS ROAD Minerals and Physical Metallurgy Building, University of Birmingham

(Formerly listed under UNIVERSITY ROAD, BIRMINGHAM)

II Science faculty building. 1963-66. Philip Dowson of Arup Associates. Reinforced concrete frame; glazing; Red brick, flat roof.

Offset square blocks, linked at corners in a row. Three storeys. Building frame comprises groups of four linked piers at regular intervals set on an orthogonal two way 'tartan' grid plan, and designed to provide service zones inside the building. Fully glazed elevations above ground floor, glazed in vertical panes set in metal frames with horizontal vents below ceiling level. Clusters of columns expressed between. Ground floor of brick, recessed to form walkways beneath edges of the building. Square concrete roof vents above clusters of columns.

Innovatory for four-column cluster plan set on 'tartan' grid to provide flexible service runs.

Listing NGR: SP0487284010

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 410172
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brawne, M, Arup Associates: The Biography of an Architectural Practice, (1983)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.