Description

MOSELEY STREET
1.
5104
City Centre B5
No 112
SP 08 NE 7/69
II
2.
Police barracks. Circa 1880, built as a hostel. A large 3 storey and attic
building in the Birmingham Gothic idiom associated with Martin and Chamberlain.
Red brick with terracotta dressings. With even but slightly asymmetrical
distribution of bays, dominated by 3 large gables with corbelled and ribbed,
tall brick chimney shafts. The gables decorated with cut brickwork and terracotta
panels. Coupled and single pointed arched windows with roll edged reveals and
drip moulds. Those on first floor have blind tympana set in panels of terracotta
with decorative roundels. Sash windows with leaded and stained glass to top
lights. Large segmental arched courtyard entrance with double panelled doors.
Site of Cardinal Newman's first residence in the city.

Listing NGR: SP0799185839

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26340683

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)