23, LUDGATE HILL
23, LUDGATE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391312
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 23, LUDGATE HILL
- Statutory Address:
- 23, LUDGATE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391312
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 23, LUDGATE HILL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, LUDGATE HILL
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:
- 23, LUDGATE HILL
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 06604 87407
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10237 LUDGATE HILL 29-APR-04 23
GV II
Offices: c.1915 with late C20 alterations. Thought to have been built for the Orbito Optical Company. Dark red brick with rubbed and moulded brick detailing. Mansard roof with wide rectangular dormer windows and tall chimneys breaking through eaves. Slate roof covering. Queen Anne style.
PLAN: Rectangular street corner site, with principal elevation to Ludgate Hill.
EXTERIOR: Ludgate Hill elevation of 4 bays, 3 storeys and attics, rising from a shallow moulded brick plinth. Principal entrance to left hand end, with double doorway and overlight beneath shallow segmental rubbed brick arch with hood mould. Late C20 joinery to doorway. 3 ground floor windows to the right with similarly detailed arched heads and 2-light C20 frames. Stepped brick cills on moulded brick string. Above, rubbed brick frieze band and then brick string below cills of first floor windows, set in pairs within brick panels between plain piers. Window openings with arched heads, as below, with multi-pane metal frames. Paired upper floor windows with common brick cills and flat heads with painted lintels with moulded brick eaves cornice above. Flat-headed 6-light dormer window within mansard roof with single brick stack to the left. 5 bay return elevation to Water Street with single tier of windows to left, and 2 pairs of windows to the right, the openings detailed to match those of the Ludgate Hill facade. 3 smaller dormers,interrupted between bays 1 and 2 by a brick stack.
Forms a group with No. 21 Ludgate Hill (q.v.) and Nos. 37 and 39 Ludgate Hill (q.v.).
This early C20 office building is an important and strongly-detailed component of 2 street frontages at one of the main approaches to Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, now recognised as a manufacturing district of international significance.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494099
- 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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