46, FREDERICK STREET
46, FREDERICK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391272
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 46, FREDERICK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 46, FREDERICK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391272
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 46, FREDERICK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 46, FREDERICK 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:
- 46, FREDERICK 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 06037 87542
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10286 FREDERICK STREET 29-APR-04 46
GV II Manufactory and dwelling. 1882. By Ewen Harper, architect for A.J. Smith, Jewellery manufacturer. Red brick with painted stone dressings and moulded brick detailing, tall gable chimneys and a Welsh slated roof with crested clay ridges.
PLAN: Elongated L-plan with domestic accommodation in the frontage range, and office, warehouse and workshops in a long storeyed range extending to the end of the west side of the plot.
EXTERIOR: Symmetrical 3-bay frontage range of 2 storeys and attic, rising from a blue brick plinth. The bays are delineated by full-height pilasters which carry decorative brick detailing and terracotta panels forming capitals. Wide gabled central bay with paired windows to all floors beneath segmental arched heads with advanced painted keystones to ground and taller first floor openings. Attic floor has flat- headed openings beneath a painted lintel band. Ground floor openings now overboarded, first and attic floors with 2-light transomed frames , the transom lights of 4 panes. Flanking bays each have segmental-arched doorways with shallow overlights. A tall first floor window to each bay, matching those of the centre bay. Wide storey bands between floors, the lower one carrying signage, the upper band with incised lettering which reads ' VARIETY WORKS' Decorative brick eaves corbelling and wide margin bands to gable apex. Stepped L-shaped range to rear, with 4 taller bays directly behind the frontage range, and 14 lower bays, and a 3-bay return at the end of the plot.
HISTORY : The complex was designed to combine domestic and industrial accommodation. The ground floor of the house contained a living room, scullery, pantry, and entrances to the yard and to the house. Office and workshops were on the ground floor of the rear wing with warehousing above, and in the first floor of the house, with bedrooms above.
Forms a group with No. 47 Frederick Street (q.v.) and No.45 Frederick Street (q.v.)
A late C19 purpose- built combined manufactory and dwelling, of domestic scale and detailing to the street frontage range and with mixed interior functions. This design consciously replicates the early C19 conversions of houses and gardens to workshop accommodation which characterised the development of this 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:
- 494067
- 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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