87, 88 AND 88A, VYSE STREET
87, 88 AND 88A, VYSE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392825
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 87, 88 AND 88A, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 87, 88 AND 88A, VYSE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392825
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 87, 88 AND 88A, VYSE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 87, 88 AND 88A, 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:
- 87, 88 AND 88A, 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:
- SP0604387988
Details
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10316
29-APR-04
VYSE STREET
87, 88 AND 88A
GV
II
A pair of manufactories. Mid-C19, adapted and enlarged by late C19, further altered late C20.
Red brick with painted stone dressings, truncated central ridge stack and a hipped roof with composition slate covering.
PLAN: Long street frontage formed by pair of double-fronted former dwellings with added parallel rear workshop ranges enclosing narrow yards.
EXTERIOR: 7-bay frontage range of 2 storeys , No. 87 with basement, the smaller right-hand end bay possibly a passage to rear workshops. Remaining 6 bays form near-symmetrical facade with 2 central doorways between flanking windows. Doorways below pediments with altered pilaster doorcases. 4-panel doors, that to No. 88 within a panelled reveal. Left-hand part with ground floor display bay window on elaborate moulded brackets, and with dentilled cornice. Right-hand window with shallow -pitched lintel and undivided sash frame. Wider, similarly - detailed openings to right-hand part with C20 joinery.
First floor windows set upon a painted sill band, with rectangular surrounds to outer openings and semi-circular arch-headed openings to the centre, above each doorway. At right-hand end, a lower semi-circular headed window with glazing bars. Rear elevation to No. 88, with added storeyed workshop range
INTERIOR : Workshop range to No. 88 with composite metal and timber roof structure supported on one side by brick piers and on the other by cast-iron columns. Evidence of floor level line shafting survives.
HISTORY: The buildings were apparently built as houses, and appear as such on the Piggot-Smith map of 1855-62. On the 1889 Ordnance Survey map, a long dog-legged range is shown attached to the rear of No.87, and the rear yard of No. 88 sub-divided. The workshop range at No.88 was added between 1887 and 1907.
A mid-C19 pair of small evolved manufactories, originally houses, but rapidly adapted and extended to form industrial premises during the expansion of a notable manufacturing 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:
- 505866
- 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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