Latitude: 52.4814 / 52°28'52"N
Longitude: -1.9037 / 1°54'13"W
OS Eastings: 406634
OS Northings: 287055
OS Grid: SP066870
Mapcode National: GBR 5Z8.KC
Mapcode Global: VH9YW.YWFN
Plus Code: 9C4WF3JW+HG
Entry Name: Birmingham Midland Institute
Listing Date: 21 January 1970
Last Amended: 8 July 1982
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1343095
English Heritage Legacy ID: 217390
ID on this website: 101343095
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
Tagged with: Library Educational institution
MARGARET STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B3 Birmingham Midland Institute (formerly listed as The Birmingham Library) SP 0687 SE 29/27 21.1.70 II* GV 2. 1899, by Cassins, Peacock and Bewlay. Red brick with stone dressings; green stone tiled roof. Two storeys plus basement and attic; 5 bays, the outer once advanced and gabled, that on the right broader and taller than that on the left. Ground floor with a modern entrance with 3-light transomed window above, three 4-light windows with transom and bold voussoirs in the arches and then the entrance up steps within an archway flanked by banded Ionic columns and arched panels. First floor with a 3-light window, six 2-light windows separated from one another by banded Ionic columns standing alternately on the keystone of the window below and a buttresses rising from basement level and a window of Serliam type with banded Ionic pilasters and a sculpted semi-circular panel over the centre light. Below the 6 window a sculpted band of Renaissance-type decoration. All first floor windows with 2 transoms. Richly decorated cornice and parapet behind which the roof in which three 4-light flat-headed dormer windows. All windows with leaded lights. Right-hand return on Cornwall Street of 3 bays and similar to the Margaret Street elevation. Nothing inside.
Listing NGR: SP0663487055
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