7-8, VYSE STREET
7-8, VYSE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392820
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 7-8, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7-8, VYSE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392820
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 7-8, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7-8, VYSE 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:
- 7-8, VYSE 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 06014 87756
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10305 VYSE STREET 29-APR-04 7-8
GV II Offices, formerly small manufactories. Mid-C19 with minor late C20 alterations.
Red brick with painted stone dressings, brick chimney to centre of front roof slope. Roof, hipped at west end with slate covering.
PLAN: Double-pile plan with central doorway to former shared central passage.
EXTERIOR: Symmetrical 2 storey, 5 bay front with main entrance to each part in outer bays. Semi-circular rubbed brick arched heads to doorways, the left-hand entrance set back within a panelled reveal. 6-panel doors within moulded architraves below semi-circular fanlights. Above each door, a sash window on a narrow painted cill band, each with a shallow bracketed cornice Centre bay with lower, narrower semi-circular arched doorway with overlight and a 6-panel door. Flanking the doorway are full height canted bay windows, each with a dentilled cornice to each storey, the upper floor windows with panelled aprons. The bays have sash windows without glazing bars.
Listed for group value with No.9 Vyse Street (q.v.).
A range of former small mid- C19 manufactories, part of an exceptionally well-preserved sequence along this street on a domestic scale and form characteristic of this specialist 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:
- 505861
- 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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