Description

In the entry for HAMPTON STREET
25/3 Edgbaston B19
Nos 1 to 4 (consec)

The address shall be amended to read HAMPTON STREET
City Centre B4
Nos 1 to 4 (consec)
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HAMPTON STREET
1.
5104
Edgbaston B19
Nos 1 to 4 (consec)
SP 0687 NE 25/3
II GV
2.
Includes Nos 394, 395 and 396 Summer Lane, Newtown. C1880 corner block of
shops and works with housing and workshops above. The bowed corner and
immediate returns of 4 storeys, the main side ranges of 3 storeys and attics.
Built of red brick with stone, cut brick, ceramic bricks and polychrome tile
decoration and dressings. The corner has elements of Ruskinian Gothic
relating to the terrace on Constitution Hill whilst the side ranges have more
usual Birmingham Gothic detailing. The corner shop front is painted white
with broad articulating piers, whilst the adjacent shops and works entrances
on both fronts have panelled pilasters with elongated acanthus consoles and
bracketed cornices. The upper storeys single and coupled jointed windows with
leaf carved impost strings. Gables with decorative roundels break the cut
brick eaves. The corner has a 3 tiered wood oriel ornately decorated with
quatrefoil top lights to casements and panelled superstructure with deep
cornice breaking through the eaves. Important corner site.

Listing NGR: SP0680887655

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26341019

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