50, ALBION STREET
50, ALBION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391247
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 50, ALBION STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 50, ALBION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391247
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 50, ALBION STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 50, ALBION STREET
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:
- 50, ALBION 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 06057 87477
Details
997/0/10280 ALBION STREET 29-APR-04 50
II Manufactory. c.1870 with minor late C20 alterations. Red brick with blue brick and moulded brick detailing and painted dressings. Welsh slate roof with gable stack to west end.
PLAN: Linear street frontage range with narrow rear passage, workshops to upper floor and offices and entrances below.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey, 4 bay range rising from a shallow blue brick plinth. Entrance to left set within tall Gothic arched outer opening, the doorway within a segmental arch-headed opening, with double 4-panel doors and an overlight with plain wooden tracery. Window openings, one to left and 2 to right with segmental outer arches and shouldered heads, linked by a stepped blue brick band. Glazing bar sash frames, with 6-pane upper sashes and horizontally-subdivided 2 -pane lower sashes. Wide painted storey band below 7 closely-spaced upper floor windows with multi-pane metal frames and 1 replacement casement. Segmental arched heads have painted springers and impost mouldings, and above, elaborate cut and moulded brick cornice. Rear elevation with 7 upper floor workshop windows with multi-pane frames.
Forms a group with No. 49 Albion Street (q.v.) and No.51 Albion Street (q.v.)
A little-altered small metal-working manufactory of c.1870, which forms part of a prominent street frontage of industrial premises. It is carefully detailed externally and displays the distinctive features characteristic of purpose-built manufactories in a specialist manufacturing district of Birmingham, now recognised as being of international significance.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494046
- 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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