73, NORTHWOOD STREET, 13-15, CAROLINE STREET

13-15, CAROLINE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389456
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-2001
List Entry Name:: 73, NORTHWOOD STREET, 13-15, CAROLINE STREET
Statutory Address:: 13-15, CAROLINE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389456
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-2001
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Apr-2004
List Entry Name:: 73, NORTHWOOD STREET, 13-15, CAROLINE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 13-15, CAROLINE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 73, NORTHWOOD STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 13-15, CAROLINE STREET
Statutory Address:: 73, NORTHWOOD STREET

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 06368 87612

Details

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10245 NORTHWOOD STREET 09-OCT-01 73 CAROLINE STREET 13-15

II

A pair of manufactories, empty at the time of inspection. (September 2000). c.1900 , with later C20 alterations. Red brick with painted dressings and banding, coped gables and a slate roof covering. PLAN: Linear range to left ( no 14 ) and rectangular street corner plan to right ( No 15 with main frontage to Caroline Street, and 4-bay range to Northwood Street extending to the north-east. Eclectic Neo- Georgian style to right-hand part, plainer Edwardian facade to left. EXTERIOR: Attached 3 storey, 3 bay ranges to Caroline Street. Right-hand part ( No 15) with 3 tall semi-circular arch-headed opening incorporating ground and first floor windows Arched heads with massive scrolled keyblocks support a moulded cornice. 3-light windows, those to ground floor multi-pane casements set on painted aprons between arch piers. Painted girder lintels. Set-back brick panel above , then 3-light windows within arch head. Upper floor with painted bands linking moulded window surrounds and heads, with shallow pilasters defining the bays, and supporting a moulded eaved cornice. Return elevation to Northwood Street with single gabled bay detailed as frontage range. Further right, 3-bay secondary range with open-pediment doorcase and 3-panel double doors below semi-circular overlight. Single sash window to right below rubbed brick flat -arched head. Dentilled brick first floor band with paired sashes below common girder heads set within plain brick piers. Wide 2-bay vehicle opening to ground floor below painted concrete lintel, with folding half-glazed doors. Left-hand frontage range (No 13 ) with wide advanced gabled centre bay and narrow flanking bays , with narrow pilasters to corners. Centre doorway with double doors below shallow arched overlight. Narrow flanking 2-light windows with shallow arched heads set on painted cill band. Outer bays with double doorways. Above, shallow arch-headed windows to first floor. Arranged 1:2:1, those to the outer bays with transomed frames. Flat headed windows to second floor , that to the centre bay a wide multi-pane metal frame with a girder lintel. Cill bands to upper floor openings, lintel band to upper floor. The rear ranges to both parts enclose a narrow T-shaped yard. INTERIORS: Not inspected. A now-amalgamated range of 2 former early C20 manufactories, of different but complementary architectural styles, prominently sited in the centre of a manufacturing district of Birmingham now recognised as being of international significance.

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Legacy System number:: 488117
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.