City Arcade
CITY ARCADE, UNION STREET B4
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1289578
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- City Arcade
- Statutory Address:
- CITY ARCADE, UNION STREET B4
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1289578
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- City Arcade
- Statutory Address 1:
- CITY ARCADE, UNION STREET B4
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:
- CITY ARCADE, UNION STREET B4
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 07137 86877
Details
SP 0786 NW 34/7
5104
UNION STREET
City Centre B4
City Arcade
(Formerly listed under HIGH STREET)
II*
1898-1901, by T.W.F Newton and Cheattle, the decorative terracotta and green faience
by Doulton and Co and other detailing by W J Neatby. The gabled facade to Union
Street is of 3 storeys plus attic and set diagonally to the arcade with a big central
arch flanked by polygonal turrets terminating in little cupolas with windows and
scrolly buttresses. To the left, another single bay. Ground floor with modern
shop fronts. Fenestration by mullioned and transomed windows, those of the first
floor with 2 transoms, those of the second floor with one. Above the arch a row of
5 small windows, a splendid band of sculpture including caryatid figures and a
3-lFlight window in the gable. The arcade itself with, between lengths of coffered
ceiling at either end, the now all modern shop fronts, 7 a side, beneath excellent
scrolly green faience balustrade with intermittent cupolas. The facade to Union
Passage is ulilitarian.
Listing NGR: SP0713786877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217287
- 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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