37, 37A & 38, VYSE STREET
37, 37A & 38, VYSE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392542
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 37, 37A & 38, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37, 37A & 38, VYSE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392542
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 37, 37A & 38, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37, 37A & 38, VYSE 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:
- 37, 37A & 38, VYSE 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 06008 88018
Reasons for Designation
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10359 VYSE STREET 29-APR-04 37, 37A & 38
GV II
Range of shops and workshops, formerly houses . 1848 with late C19 extensions, further altered late C20. Red brick, roughcast and painted to ground floor , painted stone dressings and a composition slate roof.
PLAN: Irregular U-shaped plan, with frontage range and L-shaped workshop range to rear enclosing small courtyard.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey frontage range of 6 bays, with 4 grouped doorways to centre, within a wide advanced surround with flanking Ionic columns.. A wide stepped display fascia is carried across the head of the columns. The doors are set within panelled reveals, and have rectangular overlights with margin glazing. Flanking the doorways are 2-light windows with undivided sash frames within moulded architraves ,forming shop display windows. The outer doorways have 4-panel doors to shop entrances , the inner doorways leading to staircases to upper floor workshops. 6 upper floor windows set on painted cill band, each with a moulded lintel and shallow bracketed cornice above an undivided sash window. Rear range of 2-storey workshops on southern and western sides of rear courtyard.
HISTORY: This range appears to be a single development of 2 houses, intended for 4 occupants The 1889 Ordnance Survey map shows extensive rear workshop additions.
Forms a group with No.38 Vyse Street (q.v.) and Nos. 40 and 41 Vyse Street (q.v.)
A pair of mid-C19 houses, apparently designed for multiple occupancy, rapidly adapted and extended for industrial use , with extensive surviving rear 'shopping'. The buildings form part of a prominent and boldly-detailed development of domestic properties on a street frontage now almost all given over to works premises , within a specialist manufacturing 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:
- 500104
- 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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