Latitude: 52.4792 / 52°28'45"N
Longitude: -1.8979 / 1°53'52"W
OS Eastings: 407031
OS Northings: 286814
OS Grid: SP070868
Mapcode National: GBR 609.V4
Mapcode Global: VH9YX.2Y09
Plus Code: 9C4WF4H2+MR
Entry Name: 1-7, Corporation Street
Listing Date: 1 November 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1034396
English Heritage Legacy ID: 409856
ID on this website: 101034396
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, B2
County: Birmingham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birmingham
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Cathedral Church of St Philip Birmingham
Church of England Diocese: Birmingham
Tagged with: Building
The following building shall be included: CORPORATION STREET 1. 5104 SE 0786 (west side) 34/8 Nos 1-7 (odd) II GV 2. Commercial building, c.1880. Limestone ashlar with slate mansard roof. Free style composition with mixture of Hispanic/Elizabethan details. 5 storeys and attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Moulded cornice over C20 shop fronts with bracketed broken-pedimented central doorway to panelled door set in semi- circular arched architrave; festooned swan-necked pediment set above richly- carved panel to tympanum. Festoons flank bracketed architrave to central pro- jecting first-floor window which has carved festoons to frieze beneath balus- traded parapet of second-floor window which has columns with foliate capitals to swan-necked pediment. First and second floor has rounded projecting bay windows with carved detail to pediments and stone-transomed windows with fluted Ionic pilasters to broad mullions. Third-floor stone-mullioned and transomed cross windows have bracketed swan-necked flanking central triangular pediments; cross windows beneath richly-carved bracketed cornice. Bracketed pediments to dormer windows flanking central dormer with segmental-pedimented tablet set in broken pediment. A striking early example of Free Style architecture.
Listing NGR: SP0706786813
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