Nos. 24-30 Bradford Street including 17 Newport Street and Nos. 1 and 1a Caldmore Road
17, NEWPORT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343034
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 24-30 Bradford Street including 17 Newport Street and Nos. 1 and 1a Caldmore Road
- Statutory Address:
- 17, NEWPORT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343034
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 24-30 Bradford Street including 17 Newport Street and Nos. 1 and 1a Caldmore Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, NEWPORT STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 24-30, BRADFORD STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- BELSIZE HOUSE, 1 AND 1A, CALDMORE ROAD
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:
- 17, NEWPORT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 24-30, BRADFORD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- BELSIZE HOUSE, 1 AND 1A, CALDMORE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 01195 98275
Details
SP 0198 SW
15/12
WALSALL MB,
BRADFORD STREET (east side),
Nos 24 - 30 (consecutive)
GV II
Includes No 17 Newport Street and Nos 1 and 1a Caldmore Road (Belsize House).
Row of shops and offices. 1830s, built by John Eglington on land acquired
in 1832. Stuccoed brick. A symmetrical composition with emphasised centre
and end blocks. Three storeys, with cornice and blocking course. End blocks
each of three bays, separated by Doric pilasters on ground floor and Corinthian
pilasters on upper floors. Ground floor has channelled rustication. Ground
floor windows have segmental heads. First floor windows have architraves.
All are sashed with glazing bars. Left-hand block (No 17 Newport Street)
has three bays facing Newport Street, the right-hand one blind on the first
and second floors. In the middle bay is an Ionic doorcase. Right-hand block
(No 1 Caldmore Road) has middle ground floor window replaced by doorway, and
one bay facing Caldmore Road. The middle block (No 27 Bradford Street) is of
three bays, with channelled rustication and Doric pilasters on the ground floor
and paired pilaster strips above. The windows are sashed with glazing bars.
The porch has paired columns, now with plain blocks as capitals. To left and
right are three-bay links to the end blocks. All have C20 shop fronts on the
ground floor. Sashed windows with glazing bars remain on the first floor,
except for No 29, but on the second floor only No 26 retains its sash. History:
Jerome K Jerome was born at No 1 Caldmore Road in 1859.
Listing NGR: SP0119598275
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219047
- 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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