102, SPENCER STREET
102, SPENCER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392809
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 102, SPENCER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 102, SPENCER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392809
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 102, SPENCER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 102, SPENCER 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:
- 102, 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 06067 87991
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10352 SPENCER STREET 29-APR-04 102
II Manufactory. Late C19, partially remodelled early C20. Red brick with painted stone dressings and blue brick detailing, end brick chimneys and a slate roof covering.
PLAN: Narrow wedge-shaped street frontage plot formed at rear of garden to No. 102 Vyse Street.
EXTERIOR: 6 bay frontage range of 3 storeys, with remodelled or added entrance to right-hand end bay, with elaborate painted door head with shallow bracketed cornice and shell hood above. Vertically-planked double doors. To the left a pair of shallow rubbed brick arch -headed windows with painted sills and late C20 frames. Further left, a semi-circular arch-headed doorway with blue brick margin to arch, and 2 wide window openings with late C20 joinery on a painted sill band. Upper floors with shallow arch-headed workshop windows on painted sill bands, all with multi-pane metal window frames, and blue brick arch margins. Painted dentilled eaves course.
HISTORY: The plot on which this building stands is shown on the Piggot-Smith map of c.1862 as part of the wedge-shaped garden to a house on the not yet fully-developed frontage to Vyse Street. The 1889 Ordnance Survey map shows fully-developed frontages to Vyse Street, Spencer Street and Hockley Street, the triangular enclosure formed by these streets occupied almost completely by jewellery works. At this time, part of the Spencer Street frontage is shown to be formed by the rear workshop ranges to converted houses on Vyse Street, of which No.102 may originally have been an example.
Forms a group with Plantagenet Buildings, No. 28 Hockley Street )q.v.) and Nos. 94, 96 and 100, Spencer Street (q.v.)
A small late C19 manufactory, which may have originated as a workshop range, later remodelled to form a manufactory with office entrance and windows to accompany the earlier workshop windows of the upper floors. The site demonstrates the economic viability of small plots and restricted sites during a period of rapid expansion in a manufacturing district in 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:
- 505849
- 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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