63-64, LUDGATE HILL
63-64, LUDGATE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392795
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 63-64, LUDGATE HILL
- Statutory Address:
- 63-64, LUDGATE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392795
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 63-64, LUDGATE HILL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 63-64, 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:
- 63-64, 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 06685 87278
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10233 LUDGATE HILL 29-APR-04 Birmingham 63-64
II Manufactory and Offices, empty and damaged by fire at the time of inspection ( September 2000).
Dated 1903 with late C20 alterations. Red brick with blue brick headers, pale buff brick and terracotta dressings.
PLAN: L-plan with office and warehouse range to street frontage and rear workshop range.
EXTERIOR: Asymmetrical street frontage of 3 storeys above a basement, 4 bays delineated by shallow pilasters. Narrow, off centre narrow entrance bay to right with diminutive terracotta pediment and finial, and further right, vehicle entrance with boarded double doors beneath almost flat brick arched head. Boarded-up door within elaborate terracotta surround, with paired Tuscan columns and consoles, supporting a broken pediment set against a rectangular plaque with a semi-circular moulding enclosing the date. Further left, 2 wide-span brick-arched window openings, now boarded up, with stepped brick cills. Upper floors of pier and panel form, the first floor with 3-light transomed casements beneath banded elliptical arches of rubbed red brick and terracotta. Upper floor with paired windows beneath flat heads. Plain light brick frieze band and shallow parapet with terracotta coping. Rear workshop range of 3 storeys and 8 bays, the now-arcaded ground floor of late C19 date, the upper floors, remodelled in the early C20, with a flat roof and multi-paned steel window frames below concrete lintels.
INTERIOR: The building has been damaged by fire, and the interior has not been inspected.
HISTORY: Early C20 directories show this site occupied by the same manufacturers as in No 61, Ludgate Hill .
Nos. 63-64 form a group with No. 61 Ludgate Hill (q.v.).
A manufactory of 1903, displaying the distinctive architectural and plan form characteristics of the industrial premises of the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. Nos. 63-64, together with No. 61 define the eastern boundary of what is now recognised as an historic manufacturing district of international significance.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505835
- 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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