1721-1727, HIGH STREET
1721-1727, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342883
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 1721-1727, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1721-1727, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342883
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 1721-1727, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1721-1727, HIGH 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:
- 1721-1727, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Solihull (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- 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.
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