49, VYSE STREET
49, VYSE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392822
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 49, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 49, VYSE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392822
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 49, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 49, 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:
- 49, 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 06046 88110
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10317 VYSE STREET 29-APR-04 49
II
House and manufactory . c.1850, with minor late C20 alterations. Red brick with painted stone dressings and a composition slate roof covering.
PLAN: Elongated L-plan on a corner plot with display frontages to both Vyse Street and Hylton Street, the latter with a workshop range extending along the frontage to the north-west, enclosing a narrow yard.
EXTERIOR: Vyse Street elevation ; 2 storeys, 2 bays under gable end, rising from a low blue brick plinth, with main doorway to left, and shallow display bay window to right. 2- stepped approach to recessed doorway set within pilaster surround with shallow cornice on console brackets. Panelled door with rectangular overlight. To the right, overboarded display bay window with bracketed eaves. Above, 2 margin- glazed sash windows within shouldered architrave surrounds, set upon a painted sill band. Hylton Street elevation with wide asymmetrical gable of 2 storeys with attics, and with extended right-hand corner adjoining 3-storeyed range of workshops. Gabled part with deep display window to left and smaller sash window to the right to ground floor, with inserted C20 opening between. Above, 4 windows, the 2 to the right smaller, and of different widths, all with shouldered surrounds. Above, 3 square windows, the centre opening larger, and all with moulded surrounds. First and attic floor openings with margin-glazed sashes. Ground floor opening with shouldered surrounds and shallow cornices on consoles. Attached 5-bay workshop range appears contemporary, with small semi-circular arched window to left, then a door, and 4 other shallow arch-headed windows, that to bay 3 blocked and adapted to a doorway, that to bay 5 blind. Above, multi-pane cast-iron framed windows with blue brick arched heads and sill bands. Rear elevation facing onto courtyard with multi-pane workshop windows.
HISTORY: The building is shown in its present form on the Piggot-Smith map of c.1855.
Forms a group with Nos. 50 and 51 Vyse Street (q.v.)
A small manufactory with integral dwelling of c.1850, which displays the distinctive architectural detailing and plan form characteristics associated with the development of a C19 industrial quarter of 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:
- 505863
- 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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