20, TENBY STREET NORTH
20, TENBY STREET NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392815
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 20, TENBY STREET NORTH
- Statutory Address:
- 20, TENBY STREET NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392815
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 20, TENBY STREET NORTH
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, TENBY STREET NORTH
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:
- 20, TENBY STREET NORTH
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 05943 87572
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10264 TENBY STREET NORTH 29-APR-04 20
GV II Manufactory. c. 1890 with late C20 alterations. Red brick with blue brick and ashlar stone detailing. Concealed flat roof.
PLAN: Irregular L-plan on street corner plot, with vehicle entrance to narrow rear yard on Tenby Street.
EXTERIOR: Tenby Street North elevation of 3 1/2 bays , 3 storeys above a basement, rising from a chamfered blue brick plinth, incorporating flat-headed basement windows. Ground floor with doorway at left-hand end with 5 windows and the doorway with semi-circular arched heads, the windows with roll-moulded and rebated surrounds , stone cills within an ashlar cill band and a continuous hood mould with foliated stops. Paired first floor windows with segmental-arched heads set between wide brick piers. Upper floor openings have triple lights with moulded brick cills and roll-moulded flat lintels beneath a corbelled eaves band. Half-bay at west end breaks forward and forms first part of faceted splay to corner, each facet with a single ground and first floor window, and a pair of narrow upper floor windows detailed as openings to main elevations. All windows with late C20 frames.
Tenby Street elevation has advanced half-bay to left, a wide central bay with triple lights to ground and first floors, and 4 lights to the upper floor. Vehicle entrance bay to left-hand end breaks forward slightly, with wide semi-circular arch -headed double doorway with ashlar jambs rising from blue brick plinth, and set beneath a hood mould with foliated stops. Planked and panelled double doors with decorative wrought iron metal grilles to heads.
A late C19 manufactory sited in a part of the Jewellery Quarter almost entirely made up of works premises, which, like this example display the distinctive architectural and plan form characteristics 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:
- 505856
- 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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