28-29, TENBY STREET
28-29, TENBY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392811
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 28-29, TENBY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 28-29, TENBY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392811
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 28-29, TENBY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 28-29, TENBY 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:
- 28-29, TENBY 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:
- SP0595087549
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10277
29-APR-04
TENBY STREET
28-29
GV
II
Manufactory and Brass Works, empty and damaged by fire at time of inspection. (August 2000).
1865-70, for John Clover. Lockfounder, with late C20 alterations. Red brick with stone dressings and decorative tilework. Slated roof with central chimney stack.
PLAN: L-shaped range with street frontage entrance range and attached storeyed workshop range to rear, enclosing a rectangular courtyard.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 bays, with moulded semi-circular arch -headed doorway to right, its surround formed by panelled pilasters with Doric capitals. 6-panel door below individed semi-circular overlight. To the left a triple window, each light with a moulded semi-circular head and an advanced keyblock. Further left an inserted C20 double doorway . Above, decorated tile band and a moulded stone string course below the cills of the first floor single and 2-light windows,
arranged 1:2:2:1. The openings have semi-circular heads, detailed as those to the ground floor.
Between some windows at ground and first floor levels are slender engaged shafts with foliated
capitals. Above, arcade of attic lights, alternate openings blind, with linked moulded heads. Dogtooth and modillion eaves decoration. Rear workshop range now without roof covering , of 3 storeys with with multi-pane cast iron frames. Forms a group with Nos. 30-31, Tenby Street (q.v.)
A small- scale late C19 manufactory displaying distinctive domestic- scale architectural detailing to the main elevation and forming part of an extensive street frontage range of industrial buildings within a manufacturing district of Birmingham now considered to be of international significance.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505852
- 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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