Former Birmingham District and Counties Bank
35, Frederick Street, Birmingham, B1 3HH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391269
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Former Birmingham District and Counties Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 35, Frederick Street, Birmingham, B1 3HH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391269
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Former Birmingham District and Counties Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 35, Frederick Street, Birmingham, B1 3HH
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:
- 35, Frederick Street, Birmingham, B1 3HH
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 06049 87663
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 December 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
997/0/10289
BIRMINGHAM
FREDERICK STREET
35, Former Birmingham District and Counties Bank
(Formerly listed as 35, Bank)
29-APR-04
GV
II
Former bank. c.1905, with late C20 alterations. Red brick with ashlar stone dressings, and flat roof concealed by shallow parapet.
PLAN: street corner site with elevations to Warstone Lane and Frederick Street.
EXTERIOR: both street frontage of three bays , three storeys rising from a deep ashlar plinth. Ground floor of rusticated ashlar, with three wide semi-circular arch-headed openings, with deeply-chamfered reveals, and late C20 window frames. First and second floor bays defined by wide brick piers, and wide rusticated end pilasters. First floor windows are paired six- over nine-pane sashes, beneath single keyed lintels, upper floor openings match those below. Moulded eaves cornice beneath a shallow parapet. End half-bay beyond rusticated pilaster, with panelled door with architrave surround beneath multi-pane overlight. Splayed corner entrance with moulded ashlar surround to doorway, below enriched tympanum with hood mould and label stops. Above, decorative panel with ' BANK' in relief lettering. Sash window with ashlar frame to first floor and occulus in square ashlar frame above. Cornice rises above parapet level. Warstone Lane elevation of three bays , detailed as Frederick Street frontage.
INTERIOR: remodelled late C20, but with banking hall retaining moulded cornice work and central column.
HISTORY: formerly the premises of The Birmingham District and Counties Bank, formed in 1889. This branch was opened on December 18th 1905.
Forms a group with the Rose Villa Tavern (q.v.) and the clock tower (q.v.) A prominently- sited and boldly-detailed bank of 1905, displaying some of the architectural vocabulary of C20 industrial buildings of Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, and helping to define the entrance to its core area.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494064
- 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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