58-59, CAROLINE STREET
58-59, CAROLINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391257
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 58-59, CAROLINE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 58-59, CAROLINE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391257
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 58-59, CAROLINE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 58-59, CAROLINE 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:
- 58-59, CAROLINE 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:
- SP0628287690
Reasons for Designation
Details
997/0/10371
29-APR-04
CAROLINE STREET
58-59
GV
II
Offices and workshops, formerly manufactory. Late C19, with minor C20 alterations. Red brick with painted stone dressings and blue brick detailing.
PLAN: J-shaped plan, with storeyed L-shaped workshop range to rear of street frontage range.
EXTERIOR: 4-bay street frontage range of 3 storeys rising from a chamfered blue brick plinth. To left, wide semi-circular headed doorway with recessed flanking columns with foliated capitals and semi-circular overlight. Painted ashlar hoodmould with attenuated painted keystone. 4-panel door gives access to wide staircase and ground floor office to right. Further right, a pair of semi-circular headed sash windows with rubbed brick arches below painted hood mould rising from impost band. Late C20 railed gates. Vehicle entrance to right-hand side below shallow segmental rubbed brick arch and painted hood mould. Patterned tile and blue brick storey band carries 4 first floor sash windows beneath stilted arch heads with painted dressings. Upper floor with painted storey band supporting 7 small round headed windows , the rubbed brick heads with a blue brick margin. Rear elevation with workshop windows to upper floors. 4- bay 2 storey attached workshop range to rear with multi-pane metal window frames with shallow arch-headed openings with blue brick margins to heads. 3 bay return range.
INTERIOR: Staircase to left of frontage gives access to first floor workshops Entrance to yard workshops to rear of frontage range. Forms a group with No. 59 Caroline Street (q.v.) and Nos.60 and 61 Caroline Street (q.v.)
A little- altered, purpose- built manufactory with attached workshops, displaying features characteristic of late C19 manufacturing premises in a specialist industrial quarter 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:
- 494055
- 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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