39, VYSE STREET
39, VYSE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392543
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 39, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 39, VYSE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392543
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 39, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39, 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:
- 39, 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 06010 88029
Reasons for Designation
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10358 VYSE STREET 29-APR-04 39
II
Shop and workshops, formerly 2 manufactories. Late C19 with later C20 alterations. Red brick with painted stone dressings, gable and mid-pitch chimney stacks and a composition slate roof covering.
PLAN: Rectangular street frontage range with back-to back L- shaped ranges of workshops to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2-storeyed frontage range of 3 bays, with 2 doors to left, then doorway to stair then wide central double door, then tripartite sash window, all below painted lintel band with moulded brick decoration above. 3 rectangular raised brick panels above ground floor openings, then painted cill band to 2, 3-light first floor openings with tripartite sash frames within moulded surrounds, shallow segmental arched heads and raised, pedimented keyblocks. Moulded and dentilled eaves decoration
HISTORY: The plot now occupied by the manufactories is shown on the Piggot-Smith map of c.1855 with a single dwelling upon it. The site was subsequently redeveloped after c.1869 to create manufactories, as shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey map. Kelly's Directory of 1886 records 2 occupants, Pearce and Thompson, manufacturing jewellers, and J. Goering, jewel case maker.
Forms a group with Nos. 37, 37a and 38 Vyse Street and Nos. 40 and 41 Vyse Street.
A pair of former manufactories of c.1870, a redevelopment of a former dwelling, and detailed in domestic scale and form, with storeyed workshop ranges to the rear. This complex displays distinctive architectural and plan form characteristics of industrial premises within the Birmingham 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:
- 500103
- 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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