Law Courts

LAW COURTS, LOMBARD STREET WEST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342668
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Law Courts
Statutory Address:
LAW COURTS, LOMBARD STREET WEST

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342668
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Law Courts
Statutory Address 1:
LAW COURTS, LOMBARD STREET WEST

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LAW COURTS, LOMBARD STREET WEST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SP 00247 91332

Details

In the entry for SANDWELL LOMBARD STREET WEST 14/108 West Bromwich

Law Courts

The date in the first line of the description shall be amended to read: '1890' -

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SANDWELL MB LOMBARD STREET WEST SP 0091 SW West Bromwich 14/108 Law Courts

II

Law Courts. 1880 by Wood and Kendrick (foundation stone). Brick with dressings of sandstone and terra cotta and slate roof. Two storeys with attic. Five bays, the central and outer ones emphasised by projecting forwards slightly. The ground floor windows are paired with central sand- stone pilasters. Above is a sandstone frieze and dentilled terra cotta cornice. In the right hand bay is a wide entrance to a passageway. On the first floor the outer bays have tripartite windows flanked by brick pilasters. The other windows have round heads with keystones and impost blocks. The central window is flanked by engaged Composite columns. Above the cornice is a parapet with finials and with a balustrade above the second and fourth bays. Above the central bay is a gable with two chimneys rising above a cornice and flanking a pediment. Above the outer bays are dormers with 4-light timber mullioned windows under leaded ogee roofs.

Listing NGR: SP0024791332

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
219320
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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