42, CAROLINE STREET AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
42, CAROLINE STREET AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290966
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 42, CAROLINE STREET AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
- Statutory Address:
- 42, CAROLINE STREET AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290966
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Sept-2009
- List Entry Name:
- 42, CAROLINE STREET AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, CAROLINE STREET AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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:
- 42, CAROLINE STREET AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
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 06316 87717
Details
997/24/14 CAROLINE STREET AND ATTACHED RAILINGS 16-SEP-81 HOCKLEY 42 (Formerly listed as: CAROLINE STREET B3 HOCKLEY 42)
II Manufactory, formerly a pair of dwellings with rear workshop ranges. Early C19.
MATERIALS: Red brick with bracketed eaves to a hipped slate roof and plain band corniced chimneys.
PLAN: Rectangular plan comprising a pair of former dwellings with workshop ranges extending to the rear.
EXTERIOR: Near-symmetrical three-storeyed frontage of four bays onto Caroline Street. The fenestration consists of revealed sash windows, some of which retain their glazing bars. The ground and first floor window openings have painted stone sills and reeded lintels flanked by shallow consoles to thin cornices over. The entrance is sited in the second bay from the left. The door case has engaged, slender, fluted Greek Doric columns which support an entablature and open bracketed pediment. There are plain reveals to the round-headed doorway and a six-panel door with a plain fanlight. A panel above the first floor windows reads `PICKERING & MAYELL LTD / RELIANCE WORKS'. The north return (Kenyon Street) of the attached workshop ranges which extend from the rear of both houses retain some original wooden-framed multi-pane windows.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: To the front (west) are cast-iron railings with crescent heads of distinctive Birmingham type.
HISTORY: The area around St Paul's Square to the north west of the city centre was developed as a residential and industrial zone from the 1820s and was eventually to become the Jewellery Quarter. The jewellery-case-making works of Pickering and Mayell Ltd, known as Reliance Works, was built in around 1826, originally as a pair of houses (Nos.41-42) with rear workshops. Early occupants included the noted Birmingham silversmiths George Unite and Nathaniel Mills. The company of Pickering and Mayell has occupied the premises since circa 1900.
SOURCES: John Cattell and Bob Hawkins, The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter: An Introduction and Guide (2000), pp. 14, 48
REASON FOR DESIGNATION: 42 Caroline Street is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Early-C19 dwellings with rear workshops that retains the distinctive architectural and plan form characteristics of a jewellery-manufactory building * Strong group value with other listed jewellery manufactory buildings * It exemplifies the early pattern of development of a manufacturing district of Birmingham now considered to be of international significance
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216861
- 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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