Description

BROAD STREET
1.
5104
City Centre B1
No 44
[formerly listed as
No 44 (The Brass House)]
SP 0686 NW 32/4
29.3.78
II
2.
Built as the Birmingham Brasshouse in 1781 and altered circa 1870. Brick
with stucco dressings; slate roof. Two storeys; 7 bays, the centre 5 advanced
slightly and with a parapet with volutes left and right and intermittent
balustrading. Ground floor with a central door within a stone surround with
arched recess of Romanesque type and flanked by granite columns and, either
side, a central tipartite window with slender piers and columns carrying
an entablature and 2 windows with voussoir blocks. First floor similar except
that the central window is of Serlian type and the extreme left-hand window
has been heightened. All the windows with glazing bars and standing on a
continuous sill band.

Listing NGR: SP0611786656

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26339496

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)