Old Tram Depot (West Midlands Travel Engineering Workshops)
OLD TRAM DEPOT (WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS), MOSELEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386758
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Old Tram Depot (West Midlands Travel Engineering Workshops)
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TRAM DEPOT (WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS), MOSELEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386758
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Old Tram Depot (West Midlands Travel Engineering Workshops)
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD TRAM DEPOT (WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS), MOSELEY ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- OLD TRAM DEPOT (WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS), TRAFALGAR 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:
- OLD TRAM DEPOT (WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS), MOSELEY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TRAM DEPOT (WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS), TRAFALGAR 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:
- SP 07855 84033
Details
SP 08 SE BIRMINGHAM MOSELEY ROAD (East side) 12/10186 Old Tram Depot (West Midlands Travel Engineering Workshops) GV II Includes: Old Tram Depot (West Midlands Travel Engineering Workshops). TRAFALGAR ROAD Former tram shed. now disused. 1906, with mid C20 alterations. Possibly by FB Osborn, who designed the adjacent office range. For Birmingham Corporation Tramways. Red brick with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with clerestories. Baroque Revival style. Plinth. rusticated pilasters, cornice, pierced balustrade. Single storey. 6 x 9 bays. Windows, mainly boarded, are wooden framed cross casements with glazing bars. Entrance front, to Moseley Road, has elliptical arches with rusticated ashlar heads and double keystones under a continuous cornice. 3 ramped, coped gables, each containing a Oiocletian window with multiple keystones and a round window above, under a pediment. Intermediate pilasters have segmental pediments. In the centre, a narrow recess with a sculpted coat of arms, and to its left, a blank arch containing a roL d arched window. Beyond. on each side, 2 larger arches, one to left blocked, the remainder with rounder-shutter doors. To right again, a smaller blank arch with round headed window. Right return, to Trafalgar Road, has similar architectural treatment. 3 projecting bays, each with pediment and pilasters, containing a tall window, with a Oiocletian window above the cornice. Intermediate bays, divided by pilasters with segmental pediments, each contain 2 round-headed windows. The other sides of the building are common brick, blank. INTERIOR: Mainly lined with white glazed brick, and brown glazed brick dado. Angle-iron truss roof and clerestories, carried on lengthwise lattice girders and rivetted I-section stanchions. Additional single storey internal offices on Trafalgar Road side, mid C20. The tram shed was part of a showpiece service depot for a revitalised tram service begun in Jan. 1907. As part of a scheme of promotional architecture, it received more elaborate architectural treatment than other depots, though its form and construction were similar. The tram shed was adapted for use by buses in 1949, and closed in 1975.
SP 08 SE BIRMINGHAM TRAFALGAR ROAD (North side) 12/10186 Old Tram Depot (West MidlandsTravel Engineering Workshops) GV II See under: Old Tram Depot (West Midlands Travel Engineering Workshops), MOSELEY ROAD
Listing NGR: SP0785584033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474157
- 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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