94,98 AND 100, SPENCER STREET, 28, HOCKLEY STREET
28, HOCKLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392793
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 94,98 AND 100, SPENCER STREET, 28, HOCKLEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 28, HOCKLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392793
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 94,98 AND 100, SPENCER STREET, 28, HOCKLEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 28, HOCKLEY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 94,98 AND 100, SPENCER STREET
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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:
- 28, HOCKLEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 94,98 AND 100, SPENCER 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 06074 87979
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10320 HOCKLEY STREET 29-APR-04 28 SPENCER STREET 94,98 AND 100
GV II A terrace of offices, shops and workshops, formerly houses with workshops. c. 1871, with later minor alterations. Architect not known. Red brick with painted stone dressings, tall ridge chimneys and a slate roof covering.
PLAN: Irregular wedge-shaped plot at the junction of 2 streets, with main street frontage range of varying depth.
EXTERIOR: Hockley Street elevation forms narrow end of plot, with frontage of No.28 a single narrow return bay to the main Spencer Street frontage, all designed as a single complex of 3 storeys. Spencer Street frontage with wide semi-circular arch-headed door opening with door beneath fanlight set back within panelled reveal. Above, painted sill band and tall semi-circular arch-headed window beneath bracketed open pediment. Upper floor sill band with plain gauged brick arched head to 3 over 3 pane sash. Complex and deeply overhanging eaves with elaborate modillion cornice and ornate paired consoles. Spencer Street elevation of 11 bays rising from a shallow plinth with sill band and eaves cornice detailing as previously described. At bays 3, 7 and 9 are semi-circular arch-headed doorways with panelled doors and reveals. At bays 5 and 11, lower plain passage doorways with a painted lintels. Bays 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 have stacked tall window openings to ground and first floors, with wide painted surrounds and shallow canopied heads on elaborate consoles. Tripartite sash frames without glazing bars to openings. Above main doorways, first floor windows with pedimented heads, as on Hockley Street elevation. Upper floor windows originally all 3 over 3 pane sashes, but now altered to wide workshop windows at bays 4 and 6, and with 2 inserted small openings to right-hand end of frontage. Above passage doorway at bay 5, a rectangular stone plaque with the inscription ' PLANTAGENET BUILDINGS'.
HISTORY: The complex appears to represent a speculative development to provide houses, or houses with integral workshop accommodation, on a restricted site where conventional rear yard workshop accommodation could not be provided. The 1889 Ordnance Survey plan shows 3 very restricted and irregularly-shaped rear yards accessed from a central passage, suggesting that the development was originally planned to provide 3 units, with combinations of residential, workshop, warehousing and display areas.
Forms a group with No. 102 Spencer Street (q.v.)
One of the least-altered examples of multiple use speculative buildings of its date in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. This impressively-detailed range demonstrates the economic viability of restricted sites during a period of rapid expansion in a manufacturing district in Birmingham now recognised as being of international significance.
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Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505833
- 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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