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Latitude: 52.479 / 52°28'44"N
Longitude: -1.9184 / 1°55'6"W
OS Eastings: 405635
OS Northings: 286790
OS Grid: SP056867
Mapcode National: GBR 5W9.97
Mapcode Global: VH9YW.PYNG
Plus Code: 9C4WF3HJ+JJ
Entry Name: Horse Shoe Shaped Former Stables and Stores at Number 23 (City of Birmingham Engineers Depot)
Listing Date: 22 November 1976
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1220997
English Heritage Legacy ID: 217603
Also known as: The Roundhouse
Horse Shoe Shaped Former Stables and Stores
Roundhouse, Birmingham
ID on this website: 101220997
Location: Ladywood, Birmingham, West Midlands, B16
County: Birmingham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birmingham
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Ladywood
Church of England Diocese: Birmingham
Tagged with: Building Architectural structure
SHEEPCOTE STREET
1.
5104 Ladywood B16
Horse-shoe shaped former
stables and stores at No
23 (City of Birmingham
Engineers Depot)
SP 0586 NE 31/9 22.11.76
II*
2.
C1840 and built for the London and North Western Railway as a mineral and coal
wharf. Asymmetrical composition of horseshoe design built within the angle of
Sheepcote and St Vincent Streets where the entrance is flanked by 2 houses.
Ribbed ramps laid from the entrance, one straight down and under an arch at the
crown of the horseshoe, the other around the horseshoe and over the arch. Red
brick and some stone trim; slate roofs. The stables and stores are arranged in
a horseshoe shape and stand above more streets approached by the many roads under
the arch. They consist of 10 single storeyed bays, a central 152 storeyed bays
and another 10 single storeyed bays. The arrangement is somewhat impaired on
the right by a later glazed wooden addition. Round headed wooden casement
windows and segment headed stable doors. Beneath the arch, at the back of this
building, more streets within arches separated one from another by battered buttresses.
Listing NGR: SP0563586790
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