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The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building

A Grade II Listed Building in Ladywood, Birmingham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4817 / 52°28'53"N

Longitude: -1.902 / 1°54'7"W

OS Eastings: 406750

OS Northings: 287085

OS Grid: SP067870

Mapcode National: GBR 5Z8.X8

Mapcode Global: VH9YW.ZWBF

Plus Code: 9C4WF3JX+M5

Entry Name: The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building

Listing Date: 13 January 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1276203

English Heritage Legacy ID: 410119

ID on this website: 101276203

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, B3

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

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Description


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BIRMINGHAM EDMUND STREET
SP 0687 SE
Numbers 106-110,
The Scottish Mutual
Assurance Society Building
29/10012
(including number,
29 Newhall Street)
II
GV
Office building. Dated 1895; altered C20. By Frank Barlow Osbourne for
W H Smythe, Solictors. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings; blue
tile roof. 4 storeys with cellars; 4:1:4 bays wrapped around corner
of Newhall Street and Edmund Street; asymmetrical. In simplified
Flemish Revival style. Altered ground floor with corner entrance and
separate entrances to 29 Newhall Street and 110 Edmund Street. Across
each upper floor is a continuous balcony with wrought-iron balustrade
set on the corbelled ashlar cornice of the floor below. Moulded sill
bands; cross windows with chamfered ashlar dressings in brick
surrounds.
Newhall Street front: bay 3 projects and has a canted bay window on
first and second floors, the side-lights with transoms only;
projection narrows on the third floor its window flanked by C-scrolls
and by brick pilasters which rise through a string course and 2
cornices to a shaped gable with kneelers, copings and ball finial;
above the window is a decorative ashlar panel. The flanking bays are
recessed but otherwise treated in similar manner whilst bay 1 is
narrower projection with cross window to each floor and simpler gable.
Main ridge has broad, corniced transverse stack and matching coaxial
stack. Corner bay has rounded turret with curved cross-window to each
floor and 4-light mullioned opening to void beneath octagonal ogee
dome set on a corbel table.
Edmund Street front: generally treated as Newhall Street front but
with broad gable on left which projects and has cross-windows to each
floor flanked by brick pilasters and by transomed single-light
windows. Beneath first floor window is a carved ashlar panel with
monogram and date '1895'; cornice above third floor surmounted by
small ashlar pediment; 2-light window within the gable. Transverse
ridge stacks as before.
Important city centre location. Noteworthy roofscape.

Listing NGR: SP0674487088

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