1721-1727, HIGH STREET
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342883
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- Statutory Address:
- 1721-1727, HIGH STREET
Map
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1721-1727, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Solihull (Metropolitan Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 18236 76668
Details
SOLIHULL
1.
5108 KNOWLE
HIGH STREET
SP 1876 & SP 1976
(East Side)
20/482 Nos 1721-1727 (odd)
II GV
2.
Almshouse row. 1885 by William Hawley Lloyd of Birmingham for the Berrow Cottage
Homes Trust, in a Queen Anne revival style. Brick with moulded brick dressings and decoration and some stone dressings; plain tiled roofs with tall single ridge stack with oversailing cornicing to left and paired similar ridge stacks to right. Plan consists of two tall gabled cross wings with lateral side wings to left and right of each, linked by a short lower block. Single storey. Ground floor bay windows under both gables with leaded bell-cast-roofs, both divided by inset doorways. Both gables have two tiers of cut and moulded brick decoration in Perpendicular - Gothic-like tracery panels. The link-block contains two boarded doors and has a moulded stone parapet and two urns. Single window in right-hand wing. End-gables of row have tracery-panelled gables and ogee Tudor-arched dripmoulds, continued to either side as bands, over a boarded door and a window. Inset stone plaque in left hand gable giving details of foundation of almshouses.
Listing NGR: SP1823776671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 218347
- 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.
End of official listing
