Office Range
OFFICE RANGE, MOSELEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386759
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Office Range
- Statutory Address:
- OFFICE RANGE, MOSELEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386759
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Office Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- OFFICE RANGE, MOSELEY ROAD
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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:
- OFFICE RANGE, MOSELEY 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 07806 84056
Details
SP 08 SE BIRMINGHAM MOSELEY ROAD 12/10219 Office Range GV II Built by Lowe & Son. Red facing brick, with ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roofs. Renaissance Revival style. Plinth, buttresses, sill band, pierced balustrade, coped gables with finials. 2 and 3 storeys, 7 window range. T -plan. Ground floor openings mainly boarded. Windows mainly have stone cross-mullions and label moulds. Projecting gabled centre has Mannerist ashlar doorcase with pilasters, brackets, cornice and sham Office range and adjoining gateways at former tram depot.1906. By FB Osborn for Birmingham Corporation. Balustrade, and moulded round arched opening with double keystone and fanlight. Above, an ashlar oriel window, 1/3/1 lights, with balustrade. Round light with keystone surround in gable above. Side ranges have regular fenestration, 3 lights, with larger windows to the first floor. Beyond the inner windows, external buttress stacks with tall, ornamented coped flues. To left, a blank single bay projection with flat roof. Attached to the corner, a square gatepier with ashlar cap and ball finial, with slot for sliding gate. Similar piers to left, and at the right corner. Left return, 3 storeys, has boarded windows on the lower floors, and 2-light window above. Chamfered corner, corbelled at first floor level. Ri~ht return, 2 storeys, has a single off-centre ground floor window, and a central 3-light window above. In the gable peak, a .round opening with keystone surround. Rear elevation has projecting central bay with chamfered corners corbelled at first floor. 2-light window to first floor, and round window in gable. To left, ground floor windows covered by late C20 shelter. To right, a single storey projection with flat roof and canted corner, and 4 windows, one a steel casement. Door to right. Above, on each side, an external corridor with rendered finish, possibly concrete, carried on cast-iron brackets and with multiple small windows matching the main range. To right, a D-shaped stair enclosure, 2 storeys, rusticated, with rendered finish and conical slate roof. Single window on each floor, and door at foot. This enclosure is metal, probably cast iron, and contains a cast iron spiral stair. Above again, two 3-light windows on each side. Between the right windows, an external stack with ornamentation, minus the flue. INTERIOR: not accessible at time of survey. This office range was an architectural showpiece for a revitalised tram service, begun in Jan. 1907. It incorporated staff recreational and cultural facilities, as well as the usual depot offices.
Listing NGR: SP0780684056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474158
- 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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