The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building
29, NEWHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276203
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building
- Statutory Address:
- 29, NEWHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276203
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29, NEWHALL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE SCOTTISH MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY BUILDING, 106-110, EDMUND 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:
- 29, NEWHALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE SCOTTISH MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY BUILDING, 106-110, EDMUND 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 06750 87085
Details
The following building shall be added to the list;
BIRMINGHAM EDMUND STREET SP 0687 SE Numbers 106-110, The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building 29/10012 (including number, 29 Newhall Street) II GV Office building. Dated 1895; altered C20. By Frank Barlow Osbourne for W H Smythe, Solictors. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings; blue tile roof. 4 storeys with cellars; 4:1:4 bays wrapped around corner of Newhall Street and Edmund Street; asymmetrical. In simplified Flemish Revival style. Altered ground floor with corner entrance and separate entrances to 29 Newhall Street and 110 Edmund Street. Across each upper floor is a continuous balcony with wrought-iron balustrade set on the corbelled ashlar cornice of the floor below. Moulded sill bands; cross windows with chamfered ashlar dressings in brick surrounds. Newhall Street front: bay 3 projects and has a canted bay window on first and second floors, the side-lights with transoms only; projection narrows on the third floor its window flanked by C-scrolls and by brick pilasters which rise through a string course and 2 cornices to a shaped gable with kneelers, copings and ball finial; above the window is a decorative ashlar panel. The flanking bays are recessed but otherwise treated in similar manner whilst bay 1 is narrower projection with cross window to each floor and simpler gable. Main ridge has broad, corniced transverse stack and matching coaxial stack. Corner bay has rounded turret with curved cross-window to each floor and 4-light mullioned opening to void beneath octagonal ogee dome set on a corbel table. Edmund Street front: generally treated as Newhall Street front but with broad gable on left which projects and has cross-windows to each floor flanked by brick pilasters and by transomed single-light windows. Beneath first floor window is a carved ashlar panel with monogram and date '1895'; cornice above third floor surmounted by small ashlar pediment; 2-light window within the gable. Transverse ridge stacks as before. Important city centre location. Noteworthy roofscape.
Listing NGR: SP0674487088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410119
- 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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