12, 13 AND 14, VYSE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392821
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-2004
List Entry Name:: 12, 13 AND 14, VYSE STREET
Statutory Address:: 12, 13 AND 14, VYSE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392821
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-2004
List Entry Name:: 12, 13 AND 14, VYSE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 12, 13 AND 14, VYSE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 12, 13 AND 14, 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:: SP0600587873

Details

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10324 29-APR-04 VYSE STREET 12, 13 AND 14

II

Manufactory. Late C19 with late C20 alterations. Red brick with painted stone dressings and banding, brick ridge stacks and an artificial slate roof covering. PLAN: Acutely angled L-plan on corner plot with office and showroom areas to Vyse Street and workshop range extending westwards along Pitsford Street. EXTERIOR: Vyse Street frontage of 3 storeys above a basement, 4 bays, arranged 2:2:2:3, the bays delineated by shallow pilasters. Right-hand bay with stepped approach to triple doorways, the openings separated by narrow brick piers and set below a moulded cornice. Shallow segmental arched heads with painted keystones, and double 3-panel doors set below undivided overlights. To the left, 2 paired showroom windows to each bay with C20 replacement frames. Below, shallow paired basement lights. Paired first floor windows on continuous sill band and set back between pilasters with banded heads. Ground and first floor openings with shallow segmental brick- arched heads with painted keystones linked by eaves string course. Pitsford Street elevation with elongated workshop range of 2 storeys above a basement on downward- sloping frontage. 14 bays, arranged 6:1:5:2: many of the workshop windows with multi-pane metal frames with pivoting lights. Openings with moulded brick surrounds and segmental arched heads with painted keystones and projecting sills. 2 bays to east end form return of frontage range with projecting chimney breast separating narrow windows. Remaining workshop bays with flat-headed basemen lights beneath continuous lintel band, with moulded storey band above. Ground and first with multi-pane frames to 8 of 9 bays to west, with a secondary entrance at bay 8 from east end with a single window at half landing level above. Further west, 3 workshop bays, and 4 bays with undivided sash frames above triple doorways, replicating the detail of the Vyse Street elevation. Doorways with double 3-panel doors below rectangular overlights and a moulded common lintel with diminutive pediment to centre. INTERIOR: Triple doorways provide separate access to showrooms, offices and workshops. Left-hand doorway to Pitsford Street with inner 2-panel door, and staircase with turned baluster stair, and vertical wainscott boarding. HISTORY: The Piggot-Smith map of 1855-1862 shows a developed frontage on both streets, but of a different pattern to that which now exists. The present arrangement is depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887, with the building ranges enclosing a narrow rear yard and described as 'Jewellery Works'. Forms a group with Nos. 16-18 Vyse Street (q.v.) and No.15 Vyse Street (q.v.) A purpose-built and little-altered late C19 manufactory, retaining showroom, office and workshop accommodation, and displaying both architectural and plan form characteristics associated with the distinctive building types of this industrial quarter of Birmingham, now identified as being of international significance.

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Legacy System number:: 505862
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.