Town Clerk's Department
44 AND 46, NEWHALL STREET B3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343403
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Town Clerk's Department
- Statutory Address:
- 44 AND 46, NEWHALL STREET B3
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343403
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Town Clerk's Department
- Statutory Address 1:
- 44 AND 46, NEWHALL STREET B3
- Statutory Address 2:
- 78, CORNWALL STREET B3
- Statutory Address 3:
- TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT, 100 AND 102, EDMUND STREET B3
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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:
- 44 AND 46, NEWHALL STREET B3
- Statutory Address:
- 78, CORNWALL STREET B3
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT, 100 AND 102, EDMUND STREET B3
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 06721 87054
Details
EDMUND STREET 1. 5104 (north-west side) City Centre B3 Nos 100 and 102 (Town Clerk's Department) SP 0687 SE 29/18 12.2.82 II 2. Includes No 78 Cornwall Street and Nos 44 and 46 Newhall Street. Former Board of Guardians office, by W H Ward, 1883-4. Stone; slate pavilion roof. Three storeys plus basement; 5 bays, the centre one slightly, the outer 2 more, advanced. Ground floor with banded rustication and the entrance to No 100 up steps flanked by decora- tive bands, 4 windows with decorative aprons, the entrance to No 102 similar to that to No 100 but here carrying a balcony to the first floor window. Four more windows and a window of Serlian type. First floor with a segment-headed window within a pedimented surround, 4 windows with segmental pediments, a central arched window with Venetian shell-hood and surrounded by decorative strips, 4 more windows and another segment-headed window within a pedimented surround. Second floor with a segment-headed window with moulded surround with ears and feet, 4 windows with a border of rosettes, a triplet of small arched lights flanked by decorative bands, 4 more windows and another segment-headed window in a moulded surround. All windows sashes. The outer first and second floor windows are flanked by giant banded granite columns of Corinthian type that carry pediments with winged beasts. All the sculptural decoration coarse and of a vaguely Early Renaissance kind. The right-hand return on Newhall Street (where there are the entrances to Nos 44 and 46 Newhall Street) and the rear on Cornwall Street (where there is the entrance to No 78 Cornwall Street) are similar. Inside, a splendid staircase with scrolly balustrade of unusual design and, overlooking Newhall Street at first floor level, a big hall articulated by pilasters with a coved ceiling, a balcony at one end and a 'reredos' flanked by 2 doors with segmental pediments at the other.
Listing NGR: SP0672187054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217033
- 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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