Highcroft Hospital Front Entrance Range
HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL FRONT ENTRANCE RANGE, HIGHCROFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351968
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Highcroft Hospital Front Entrance Range
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL FRONT ENTRANCE RANGE, HIGHCROFT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351968
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Highcroft Hospital Front Entrance Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL FRONT ENTRANCE RANGE, HIGHCROFT 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:
- HIGHCROFT HOSPITAL FRONT ENTRANCE RANGE, HIGHCROFT ROAD
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:
- SP1014991500
Details
SP 19 SW
997/4/10149
BIRMINGHAM
HIGHCROFT ROAD
Highcroft Hospital front entrance range
II
Front range of the former Aston Union Workhouse (qv). 1869 by Yeoville Thomason. Red brick with stone and blue brick dressing and decoration. Terracotta plaques. Tiled gabled roofs with finials and tall brick chimney stacks. Central archway flanked by ranges each with 3 projecting and gabled bays. Equilateral arch of banded red and blue brick and stone with a moulded hood rests on stone stiff-leaf bands. Gable eaves have brick modillions and moulding. Open hammerbeam roof to the vault. Wings with pointed arch windows to all but one of the projecting bays; some with stained glass top lights. Penultimate gables with blind brick oculi. Blocking course frieze of enriched terracotta tablets. Interior: to left a blue and red quarry-tiled corridor with zig-zag patterned border. The boardroom, with Gothic window and door surrounds and roof trusses on colonette corbels, has a liver-coloured marble fireplace with an overplaque stating that the boardroom was re-erected in 1889 by J G Dunn ARIBA and P W Hipkiss.
Listing NGR: SP1014991500
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471804
- 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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