Geoffrey Buildings
5, LOWER SEVERN STREET B1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343081
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Geoffrey Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- 5, LOWER SEVERN STREET B1
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- 1999-08-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/01370/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343081
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Geoffrey Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, LOWER SEVERN STREET B1
- Statutory Address 2:
- GEOFFREY BUILDINGS, 93, 95 AND 97, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1
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:
- 5, LOWER SEVERN STREET B1
- Statutory Address:
- GEOFFREY BUILDINGS, 93, 95 AND 97, JOHN BRIGHT STREET B1
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 06782 86583
Details
JOHN BRIGHT STREET 1. 5104 City Centre Bi Nos 93, 95 and 97 (Geoffrey Buildings) SP 0686 NE 33/42 27.11.81 II GV 2. Includes No 5 Lower Severn Street. 1901. Brick and yellow terracotta; tile roof. In a style similar to Nos 81 to 91 (odd) John Bright Street (qv) and no doubt by the same architect. Three storeys plus attic; 3 bays plus the former entrance bay on the corner. Ground floor with modern shop front incorporating the entrance. First floor with 3 round-headed windows within terracotta panels with cornices. Second floor with 3 couplets of arched windows. In the roof 2 flat-headed dormer windows, one of 5 lights in the rhythm 2:1:2, the other of 2 lights. The corner with a first floor inset canted bay window that reaches into the second floor and is then 'bridged across' the corner to terminate in a single sentry-box like window in front of a tall gable. The return on Lower Severn Street (where there is the entrance to No 5 Lower Severn Street) generally similar to the facade but with first floor windows with segmental arches within their moulded frames.
Listing NGR: SP0678286583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217327
- 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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