53, REGENT PLACE
53, REGENT PLACE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392806
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 53, REGENT PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 53, REGENT PLACE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392806
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 53, REGENT PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, REGENT PLACE
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:
- 53, REGENT PLACE
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 06285 87577
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10254 REGENT PLACE 29-APR-04 53
II
Offices, formerly paper warehouse and offices. 1906 with late C20 alterations. By J.H. Hawkes and Son, architects, for T.W. Watson. Smooth red brick with buff-coloured terracotta dressings and banding, plain gables and a Welsh slate roof covering.
PLAN : L-shaped building enclosing small triangular rear yard.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys above a basement, 3 bays, with single entrance to left-hand bay. Doorway within moulded terracotta surround and a segmental pediment above a joggled head. C20 6-panel door with concealed overlight. To the right, basement light with glass bricks within metal frames beneath buff terracotta band. Above, single and paired sash windows with moulded surrounds, sill band and lintel band, the windows set behind fixed metal bars. Moulded string course above continues over doorway pediment. First floor with 3, 3-light multi-pane transomed windows with flat heads within segmental brick arch-headed openings with serpentine string course above. Sill bands to both upper floors, the second floor with central raised pediment, enclosing tall, wide semi-circular arch-headed window. Flanking shallow 3-light windows beneath wide eaves band.
Rear range with blind west wall, and large transomed flat- headed windows to the east, between shallow brick piers.
HISTORY: the architect's drawings show office accommodation to the street frontage at ground floor level and undivided storage and workspace to each upper floor, the latter additionally linked by a secondary stair to the rear range.
A purpose- built warehouse of 1906, carefully detailed externally, and an important component of the complex manufacturing network within an industrial 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:
- 505846
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 29-Jun-2026 at 23:25:04.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.